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Markdown support

Draftail supports formatting content with Markdown markup. If you’ve never heard of Markdown this might sound like too much, but in reality it’s really simple, and makes for a much faster content editing experience, with less strange keyboard shortcuts to remember.

Markdown formatting isn’t actually being kept around in the editor – it just serves as a shortcut to format content faster. Here are a few examples:

Heading levels​

Heading levels can easily be formatted with the #, ##, ###, Markdown-style shortcuts. For a heading level 3, use three hash signs – ### followed by a space at the start of a line:

Editor screenshot showing Markdown shortcuts

Bold, italic, and more​

It’s also possible to use Markdown shortcuts for inline formatting, not just at the beginning of a line:

  • Use **double asterisks** for bold text.
  • Use _underscores_ for italicized text.
  • Use ~tilde~ to strike through text.

More shortcuts​

Please have a look at the full list of keyboard shortcuts to see all supported Markdown shortcuts.