Markstyle Guide

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This article explains how to format input for text fields that accept markstyle.

• Emphasis
• Links
• Images

Emphasis

Surround a string with single underscores to render it in italics font. The following markstyle

This _word_ will be emphasized in italics font.

will render as

Surround a string with single asterisks to render it as bold. The following markstyle

This *word* will be emphasized in bold font.

will render as

Links

Place the text for the link in square brackets, followed by the URI in parentheses.  Only http, https, and ftp URIs are supported. The following markstyle

[Google](https://www.google.com)

will render as

Google

Images

Place the alt text for the image in square brackets, preceded by an exclamation mark, and followed by the image URI in parentheses.  Only jpg, jpeg, gif, and png images are supported. The following markstyle

![Image](https://www.shorturl.at/img/shorturl-icon.png)

will render as