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Tracker uses a version of Markdown (“Tracker-Flavored Markdown”) for description, comments, tasks, blockers and titles. It is very similar to GitHub-Flavored Markdown, which improves upon Standard Markdown in many ways.

Markdown utilizes an easily consumable plaintext syntax to denote rich content elements such as bold/italic items, numbered and bulleted lists, code blocks, headers, and images. Getting started with Markdown is fairly easy. If you’re not familiar with Markdown, it may be worth your while to read Daring Fireball’s Markdown Syntax Guide.

Slack has a solution for you! If you click on the + symbol at the side of the text entry box, you will see an option for Code or text snippet, click on this. A pop out will appear. You can paste or type your code block into the large text input box. What makes Slack a favorite among teams is that it isn't just a plain text chat system. Users have options to format text to convey emotion, and reactions and emojis can be used in place of text. The Slack administrator can customize aspects of formatting and reactions, but users can also change styles and set up Slack with their own.

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No, in fact, Slack doesn't support Markdown in messages¹ at all. It uses its own similar-at-a-glance format called mrkdwn which has some notable differences with Markdown: In Markdown, both. and are used for emphasis In Markdown, both. and are used for bold. Gebus people - while flavors vary, Markdown in general is meant to be 100% compatible with HTML. It'll look for certain markers in text (double astrix, uderscores, and the like) and convert it to HTML. BUT.dramatic gasp. you can ALSO just write HTML! Given the implementation of Slack, their 'rich text' is just HTML. In this python slack bot tutorial I will be covering markdown messages and sending emojis in the context of a slack bot. We will be learning how to handle us.

When you use markdown in a story or epic description or comment field, you can click the Preview tab to see how the markdown will render after you save your changes.

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Basic syntax

The following overview will introduce you to some of the most commonly used Markdown Syntax, which can be used in story descriptions, comments, tasks, blockers and titles (though some fields offer limited support, see Where you can use Markdown).

Styling text

Blockquotes

Quote your text with a greater-than angle bracket >

Links

Create inline links by wrapping text in brackets [ ], then wrapping the URL in parenthesis ( )

Lists

Create bulleted lists by preceding lines of text with - or *

Create numbered lists by preceding each line with a number. Note that lists beginning with an arbitrary number will automatically be converted to start with 1

Create unordered combination and nested ordered lists by indenting lines with four spaces

Headers

Use anywhere from 1-6 hash # characters at the start of the line, corresponding to header levels 1-6

Inline images

Insert inline images using the following syntax

Inline code blocks

To fence off a span of code, wrap the text with backticks

The word `code` has been fenced off with backticks.

You can add syntax highlighting for quite a few languages, including Gherkin, by adding a language name after the opening three backticks of your fenced code block. See our post “Syntax Highlighting- now with more Gherkin” for more details.

For more on mastering Markdown please see Daring Fireball’s Markdown Syntax Guide as well as GitHub’s Guide to Mastering Markdown.

Tables

Add tables by using three or more hyphens to create a header for each column (---), and separate those columns using pipes (|). Optionally, you can use pipes on either end of your table.

The output will render similar to this:

The cell widths can vary and will not affect the rendered output.

Align the text in your columns to the left, right, or center by adding a colon (:) to the left, right, or on both sides of the hyphens within the header row.

Here’s how the above alignment choices will render:

Where you can use Markdown

Description: full Tracker-Flavored Markdown

Activity: full Tracker-Flavored Markdown

Title: only bold, italic, strikethrough, and links

Tasks: only inline Markdown (such as bold, italic, strikethrough, links, story tags, inline code blocks, etc.)

Slack Markdown Url

Blockers: full Tracker-Flavored Markdown

Project Profile: full Tracker-Flavored Markdown

Differences from Standard Markdown

New lines

With Standard Markdown, new lines are stripped out between elements, which often causes unintentional formatting issues. Like GitHub-Flavored Markdown, Tracker renders line breaks between content elements as </br> tags, and double line breaks as new paragraphs.

Multiple underscores in words

Markdown interprets * or _ wrapped words and phrases as bold and italic emphasis. Since underscores are often used within text to define method names and variables (e.g., some_method_name), Tracker ignores interior _ and * characters.

URL Auto-linking

Tracker automatically links URLs beginning with http:// or https://. This differs from Standard Markdown, which requires distinct tagging for URLs.

Fenced code blocks and code highlighting

As with GitHub, Tracker enables fenced code blocks by wrapping content with three backticks, whereas Standard Markdown converts text elements prefixed with a tab or spaced text elements to code blocks.

Does Slack Support Markdown

By default, Tracker does not highlight syntax in code blocks. To enable syntax highlighting, add the language name next to the first line of backticks.

@mention autocompletes

Slack Markdown Code

Tracker supports mentioning of team members within comments. Tracker will attempt to autocomplete team members’ names when prefixed with the @ symbol.

Story and epic tagging

Tracker also supports hyperlinking of stories and epics by IDs. Story IDs prefixed with # (e.g., #12345) will link to that story. Epic IDs prefixed with ## (e.g., ##54321) will link to that epic.

Similarly, Tracker will detect story URLs and condense them into their associated IDs.