# Markdown Styling

Markdown is a simple text styling that using markers in plain text to indicate special formatting.

All the text in Character.AI supports some Markdown so both users and Characters can use these techniques. All of these can be used in Character definitions as well.

`**this is bold**`      **this is bold**

`*this is italics*`   *this is italics*

`` `this is highlight` ``     <mark style="color:red;">`this is highlight`</mark>

`~this is strikethrough~`    ~~this is strikethrough~~

You can also do various size texts by putting 1 to 5 #'s at the start of the line (one # is the largest, ##### is the smallest).

Here's an example from [Marky D's](https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=tPAGgURDafeSncRcx7kvVX40GKrZuQ3o7ZLozPQcaLY) Greeting

<figure><img src="https://1892234324-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FEPKaFCA0X9sMHG2M4S79%2Fuploads%2FFBiBSkobgKoR9xvkTsq5%2Fimage.png?alt=media&#x26;token=dff3f41d-9a6d-4516-9136-f33170dce0a1" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

Which will be presented as

<figure><img src="https://1892234324-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FEPKaFCA0X9sMHG2M4S79%2Fuploads%2F9XjsQaAj15YSJqtW4l6a%2Fimage.png?alt=media&#x26;token=d628a5c9-ffd7-4954-80c7-4b36f3dadafa" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

You can also create multi-line code blocks using three backticks \`\`\` or three tildes \~\~\~ around the content.&#x20;

<div><figure><img src="https://1892234324-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FEPKaFCA0X9sMHG2M4S79%2Fuploads%2FvFbfL95WIJWeXyj2jeHb%2Fimage.png?alt=media&#x26;token=67adc33f-b97c-4d90-a39c-b6426ab6790b" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <figure><img src="https://1892234324-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FEPKaFCA0X9sMHG2M4S79%2Fuploads%2FySrK5mFIj2S4Jzmr624q%2Fimage.png?alt=media&#x26;token=c30276f8-c90e-48c4-b113-7258e9c32ec7" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div>


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