Formatting your Messages

Make your messages stand out with Markdown

Last updated January 9, 2023 · 4 min to read

Revolt uses a simple, plain-text based, and super easy text formatting system called Markdown.
You can use it to make your text stand out!

Basic Styles

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normal text
bold, also bold
italics, also italics
bold italics, also bold italics
~~strikethrough~~

Code Blocks

You can use code blocks for text that needs to be easily copied, such as code.

Single-line Code Block

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This is a single-line code block!

Multi-line Code Block

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This is a multi-line code block!

let x = "This is a multi-line code block, with the language set to JS";

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The language display, shown above as a purple button, also acts as a copy button - if you click on it, the entire contents of the code block get pasted into your clipboard! This is especially useful for code blocks that contain a lot of text.

Block Quotes

You can use Block Quotes to signify a quote. The block quote can be multiple levels deep.

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If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

— Wayne Dyer

trash can sus

Note that three > characters on a single line will not quote the whole message - it will make the first line a triple-quote.

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You do not need to put an empty line after every Block Quote to signify the end of the Block Quote, unless you need to finish a nested Block Quote.
This deviates from the Markdown standard, but it makes it easier to use.

Spoilers

You can hide spoilers using spoiler tags.

Simply wrap your spoiler in two exclamation marks before and after, and the text will only be revealed after an additional click.

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The impostor is !!jan!!

Links

You can embed links in regular text. Direct URLs will automatically be converted into links.
By default, a summary of the URL will be shown below your message. If you wish not to summarise a link, you can place a < before, and a > after the link.

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Revolt
https://github.com/revoltchat
https://revolt.chat

Headings

You can add headings to your messages. The lower the heading number, the larger the text.
The smallest heading, by optical size, is the sixth heading, the largest is the first heading.

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Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

Heading 4

Heading 5

Heading 6

Tables

You can create tables in your messages.

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Header 1	Header 2	Header 3
Cell 1	Cell 2	Cell 3
Cell 4	Cell 5	Cell 6
Cell 7	Cell 8	Cell 9

Lists

You can create lists in your messages, such as unordered lists (*, +, -) and ordered lists (1., 2., 3.).

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Item 1
Item 2
Item 3

Item 1
Item 2
Item 3

KaTeX

You can use KaTeX to render math and some other advanced markup in your messages.

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$x^2$

$\sin(x)$

$\frac{x}{y}$

$\sqrt{x^2}$

$\sum_{i=1}^n a_i$

$\lim_{x \to \infty}$

$\color{red}\textsf{Red Text}$

See KaTeX's documentation for more information.

Timestamps

You can display timestamps in your messages. The format requires you to get the time as a Unix timestamp. You can do this with online services like unixtimestamp.com.

An embedded timestamp in a message.

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01:37
01:37:42
22 September 2022
22 September 2022 01:37
Thursday, 22 September 2022 01:37
in 9 months (f.e.)

Emoji

You can use emoji in your messages. This allows you to express yourself in a more human way.

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You can see the full list of emoji shortcodes using auto-completion - simply start typing with a :.

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