How do you get “keys” to appear in your answer text?

Question

See the accepted answer in this post: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3374/how-do-you-position-your-hand-to-use-the-command-key-what-finger-do-you-use

What's the markdown the person used to turn the CMD curly symbol in to a floating key like that? I see those used all over stackexchange sites but there's no mention of how to do that in the markdown editing help page.

Answer 1

You want the <kbd> tag. Enclose any piece of text—e.g. the ⌘ symbol—between <kbd> and </kbd>, and you get it to look like a keyboard key: ⌘

Here's the "official" Meta Stack Overflow question on this: How can I format as keyboard keys?