+++
title = "Put (edited) in the middle of a message in Discord"
date = "2021-03-25"
aliases = [
  "posts/edited-in-middle-of-message-discord/",
]

description = """
With a bit of trickery using the RLE character (U+202B), you can get the
(edited) text on a message to be somewhere other than at the end of the message.
"""

tags = [
  "tutorial",
  "discord",
  "discord-tricks",
]
+++

![Example image](/media/discord-tricks/edited-in-middle-of-message.webp)

## Tutorial

1. Copy the "right-to-left embedding" character (U+202A) to your clipboard.
2. Open editing box of a message
3. Delete all text inside
4. Paste the character
5. Type the text you want on the right of `(edited)`
6. Press space and paste the character
7. Type the text you want on the left of `(edited)`

*This post was adapted from [gitea:bbaovanc/discord-tricks][1]*

[1]: https://git.bbaovanc.com/bbaovanc/discord-tricks