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Markdown is a highly simplified markup language used to format text. SeaTable uses Markdown in various places to format longer texts in a visually appealing way.

You don’t necessarily need to be familiar with the syntax of Markdown. But whether you are using Markdown for the first time or already have experience with it, this article will help you better understand where and how to use the SeaTable version of Markdown.

Currently, there are five areas where you can use Markdown syntax in SeaTable. These are:

As soon as Markdown is used in SeaTable, you will be offered the following input mask. Of course, you can select words or text blocks as usual and then choose the desired formatting.

Markdown in SeaTable

Alternatively, you can trigger Markdown formatting directly by typing certain special characters. Just type in a Markdown input field a # followed by a word. You will see that in Markdown syntax the hash stands for a first heading. So if you know which special character triggers which formatting, you can capture and format your texts much faster.

Currently, you can only trigger some of the formatting with a special character. You can find out what these are in this article.

Currently you can enable the following syntax options in SeaTable by special character.

A row, which can be used with one to three # -character, followed by a space, results in a Headline the first to the third level.

Markdown syntax

## First level header
## Second level header
### Third level header

Result

Result of Markdown syntax headings

Text created by a \* or \_ Couple is surrounded italic formatted (which in Markdown means an emphasis); text that is accompanied by a double \*\* or \_ \_ Couple is surrounded bold formatted (which means heavy emphasis in Markdown). The formatting can also be combined with other inline formats.

Markdown syntax

*This text will be italic*
This will also be italic

**This text will be bold**
__This will also be bold__

_**Combine them for bold italic**_

Result

This text will be italic
This will also be italic

This text will be bold
This will also be bold

Combine them for bold italic

You can either \- or \* as a marker for a unordered list use

Result of Markdown Syntax Unsorted List

If a row begins with a 1. , it is automatically converted into a sorted list converted.

1. item 1
2. item 2

A Blockquote is a row, which is linked to \> and then followed by the content of the quotation. Quotations are indicated by an indentation and a frame in the left margin.

Markdown quote

Text created by a FIXME: backtick pair is surrounded is represented as inline code. Thus from apiKey is your secret API token the following formatting:

Result of Markdown syntax inline code

A Code block is determined by three successive Backticks ``` introduced. The special feature of the code block is that the content is displayed as a Inline code is displayed with monospace font. Indentations are also retained exactly as they are entered.

Markdown code block

Any line break ↵ is treated like a hard line break with space between the two rows . A line break without spacing between the individual rows is not possible. Also multiple line breaks are removed and reduced to a simple line break.

Checkboxes are typically represented in Markdown by a \[ \] or a \[x\] is entered. However, this input is not automatically converted into a checkbox. Instead, you must click the small checkbox icon click.

Hyperlinks are also supported in SeaTable Markdown, but can only be inserted via the icon.

~~strikethrough~~ is not supported by SeaTable. Also double line breaks are removed and a <br> is not interpreted as an additional line break.

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