Discord Text Formatting

In this guide we’ll show you all the possible discord text formatting options available to make your text messages more pretty, animated, and organized. After studying this guide, you will be able to use discord markdown to create messages bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, and more. For example, you can add a heading using H1, H2 or H3 using a hash symbol for a specific number of times before a text.

Using these tips and tricks, you can emphasize text with color, set up bulleted listings, create headings, and do a lot of other things. So, without any further ado, here’s how to format text on Discord like a pro!

Using markup, we can easily bold, italics, or underline the text on Discord. Firstly, we’ll show you how to bold the text.

This is to be used when you want to highlight the text by making the letters slant.

You can also generate stylish and cool text using our Discord Fonts Generator.

Highlight text clearly by drawing a line under it in Discord, the same as the <u> tag in HTML. Placing the two underscores (_) at the start and end of the text can easily transfer the text into underlining.

Strikethrough is used when you want your sentence or text to look like crossed out. A horizontal line appears through the center of the text. A tilde (~) key is used to strikethough text on Discord.

At this point, we know how to do the basic discord text formatting. To combine two or more types of formatting, we add desired symbols after and before the text.

If we first enter two ** asterisks to make the text bold and then two underscores to underline it at the start of the text, we have to close the underline first by adding two underlines before the two asterisks.

Note: On the PC versions of the platform, select a text and tap on the icons from the top panel or use the keyboard shortcuts to wrap the formats over each other.

Writing text messages in colors in Discord is challenging. This is mainly because you don’t get to view a color palette. Instead, you will need to add various discord text formatting syntaxes before and after a text to wrap it up in a color.

For the appended scenario, note that most of the syntaxes we are currently using are only limited to the desktop version as the mobile version does not support it to date.

Emphasize Text with Color in Discord for Desktop

On the mobile app, wrap your text with either the Kotlin or XML syntax.

Kotlin: To use the Kotlin syntax, begin with three backticks, the same as the desktop syntaxes. Then, in the next line, open double quotes and start typing your sentence. Once done, close the double quotes and add three backticks succeeding it. Your text will turn green.

XML: Meanwhile, to use the XML syntax, start your text with the greater than “<” symbol instead of double quotes. Then, add a space before you start typing your message. Once done typing your text, add a space again and insert a less than “>” symbol. Then, close it with three backticks.

Apart from some entry-level text formatting and combining them, we can highlight your text as code as well. To do so on the Discord mobile app, you will need to add backticks before and after your text. However, for multiple lines, you will have to start your message with three backticks and then, once done, close it with three backticks.

Apart from the code block, we can send texts wrapped up in a quote block. To do this using the Discord mobile app, add a greater than “>” symbol before your message.

On a desktop, this problem is easier to get around as all you must do is type in a text, select it, and then select the quote (“) icon from the top panel.

Masked links basically refer to clickable texts and redirect you to a specific website.

To do so, wrap your text up in box brackets “[].” Then, wrap the link you want the text to redirect to within semi-circular brackets “().” This works equally on the web and mobile versions of the platform. For clarity, refer to the below screenshot:

With that, we have finally reached the end of this guide. These Discord markup shortcuts and text formatting tools should help you enhance the look and feel of your messages.