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! Let’s go over some examples.

What this article covers:

• Text Formatting
• Organizational Text Formatting
  • Headers
  • Subtext
  • Masked Links
  • Lists
• Code Blocks
• Block Quotes

Text Formatting

If you don’t want to use Markdown, you can use Code Blocks instead.

Organizational Text Formatting

This is currently an experiment and is not available on all servers at this time.

Headers

Don’t forget to add a space between your text and the code to create a header.

To create a header you just need to include a specific number of the hash/pound sign character (#). Use (#) for a big header, (##) for a smaller header, or (###) for an even smaller header as the first character(s) in a new line to make a header. Here is an example of what each header type looks like.

Subtext

Like Headers, you can add subtext to any chat message. To do so, add a (-# ) before the text you want to appear in the subtext. Don’t forget the space after # before your message. For example: 

Subtext works very similarly to Headers, so the (-#) must be at the very beginning of the line in order for it to work.

Masked links

You can use masked links to make text a clickable or pressable hyperlink. To do so, you need to include the text you want displayed in brackets and then the URL in parentheses. For example:

Lists

Don’t forget to add a space between your text and the code to create a header.

You can create a bulleted list using either (-) or (*) in the beginning of each line. For example:

You can also indent your list by adding a space before (-) or (*) at the beginning of each line. For example:

Code Blocks

You can make your own code blocks by wrapping your text in backticks (`). 

If you want to create a multi-line code block, you can do so by wrapping your text in (```), like this beautifully written haiku.

Block Quotes

Don’t forget to add a space between your text and the code to create a header.

Another option is using block quotes. To use a block quote, you just need to put (>) at the beginning of a line of text to create a single block quote. For example:

If you want to add multiple lines to a single block quote, just add (>>>) before the first line. For example:

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

Spoilers is another type of formatting too! Using the syntax || around your text will mark it as a spoiler. Please note, this is negated by a code block. You can learn more about Spoiler Tags here!