Intro
Reddit’s formatting is based on a markup language called Markdown. Markdown allows us to use specific typed characters and spaces to tell the browser or app how to visually present text content.
- More info about Markdown
- In a desktop browser, you can choose to create posts and comments in either the Rich Text Editor (visually see the styles you apply) or Markdown Editor modes.
- Video: Demo of Reddit’s desktop browser text editor in Rich Text and Markdown modes
- In the mobile app, only Markdown mode is available. You might not know it, but all of your comments are actually markdown by default. This is why some text doesn’t display as you expected it would after submitting!
Basic styling
| Format |
Input |
Output |
| Italics |
*Italics* or _Italics_ |
Italics |
| Bold |
**Bold** or __Bold__ |
Bold |
| Bold italics |
***Bold italics*** or ___Bold italics___ |
Bold italics |
| Strikethrough |
~~Strikethrough~~ |
Strikethrough |
| Underline |
doesn’t exist on Reddit |
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Special styling
Links
Spoiler masking
Bullet lists
Numbered lists
Templates
Fanfic info template
Resources