Markdown Text 101 (Chat Formatting: Bold, Italic, Underline)

Want to inject some flavor into your everyday text chat? You're in luck! Discord uses Markdown, a simple plain text formatting system that'll help you make your sentences stand out. Here's how to do it! Just add a few characters before & after your desired text to change your text! I'll show you some examples...

SWEET STYLES

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Italics

Code:

*italics* or _italics_

Bold

Code:

**bold**

Bold Italics

Code:

***bold italics***

Underline

Code:

__underline__

Underline italics

Code:

__*underline italics*__

Underline bold

Code:

__**underline bold**__

underline bold italics

Code:

__***underline bold italics***__

Strikethrough

Code:

~~Strikethrough~~

Don't want to use markdown? Pop your message in a code block and you're good to go!

CODE BLOCKS

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1) Discord also supports code blocks as well.  You can make your own code blocks by wrapping your text in backticks (`)


2) You can also use three backticks (```) to create multiline code blocks, like this beautifully written haiku.


3) If you really want to spruce up your code blocks, you can denote a specific language for syntax highlighting, by typing the name of the language you want the code block to expect right after the first three backticks beginning your code block. An example...


4) There are many different languages in place of Markdown that Discord's syntax highlighting support. Each different language has its own approach to highlight-able syntax. In Markdown, you can see that here:


BLOCK QUOTES

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The syntax to use Block Quotes is > or >>> followed by a space.

> at the beginning of a line of text, creates a single-line block quote.



>>> at the beginning of a line of text, creates a multi-line block quote. All text from >>> until the end of the message will be included in the quote



And you get the idea! Now you're a Discord text markdown expert. Get out there and highlight your statements!