Formatting your Discord Messages
Written by Ted
Ever seen people have fancy discord messages? In this blog post I will help explain how to do similar!
Discord now supports Markdown formatting (to an extent). Markdown is a standard way to style messages. (Fun Fact: this blog post is made with Markdown!). Anywho, on to the formatting!
Text
Pretty much everyone knows that for years you could do some basic text styling.
| What? | How? |
|---|---|
| Italics | *Italics* |
| Bold | **Bold** |
| Underline | __Underline__ |
| ~~Strikethrough~~ |
You can mix these up, so you can try __***underline bold italics***__ if you want!
Headers
You can use Hashtags at the beginning of a line to describe three different sized headings.
Subtext
Great for hiding small bits of info!
Links
Want links like this? Then this is how!
[Link Text](https://example.com)
You can also remove the embed from these links like thus:
[Link Text](https://example.com>)
This is the same as normal links on discord:
<https://example.com>
Lists
Lists are great for... listing things!
Bulleted Lists
Numbered Lists
Indented Lists
Code Blocks
Look at you, being all smart with code... and sharing it!
Do note: We are using BACKTICKS to do this. On US keyboards it should be on the left of the 1 - on UK keyboards it should be left of the Z.
Single Line Code Blocks
`A single line code block can be made like this!`
Multi Line Code Blocks
```
Here
is
a
multi
line
code
block
```
You can also add colours to your code, like your IDE by adding the language name after the first three back ticks. For example:
```ts
Block Quotes
Finally. Block quotes!
Single Line block quotes
Multi Line block quotes
You can simply change > to >>>, and the rest of your message will be in block quotes!
That's a wrap!
That is all you can do for now in Discord. Until they update it again, see you!