Discord Formatting Lab

Write a Discord message with markdown and watch a live preview: bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, spoilers, code, quotes and headings. Free, no login required, and the text stays in your browser.

What is Discord markdown?

Discord styles a message with characters typed around the text, a small set of Markdown: ** on both sides for bold, || for a spoiler, # and a space at the start of a line for a heading. The Formatting Lab shows a preview of that styling as you type, so you can check a message before you paste it into Discord.

How to use the Formatting Lab

1. Type or paste your message into the editor. The preview changes as you type; on a small screen, switch between Edit and Preview.
2. To style part of the text, select it and click a toolbar button: it adds the matching markdown, for example ** on both sides for bold. With nothing selected, the button inserts its empty markers at the cursor. Heading 1 and Block quote put their marker in front of the selection, so select from the start of a line.
3. Open the Markdown Cheat Sheet for every syntax the preview shows.
4. Click Copy under the editor and paste the text into Discord. The editor holds up to 2000 characters, Discord's message limit without Nitro, and counts them as you type.

The markdown the preview shows

• Bold: **bold** - two asterisks on each side.
• Italic: *italic* - one asterisk on each side.
• Underline: __underline__ - two underscores on each side.
• Strikethrough: ~~strikethrough~~ - two tildes on each side.
• Inline code: `inline code` - one backtick on each side, for a short piece of code inside a sentence.
• Code block: ``` on a line of its own before and after the code. Markdown inside a code block shows as typed.
• Block quote: > quote - a greater-than sign and a space at the start of a line. Quoted lines that follow each other make one quote.
• Spoiler: ||spoiler|| - two vertical bars on each side. Discord hides the text until a reader reveals it; in the preview, hover over or click it.
• Heading 1, Heading 2 and Heading 3: # Heading 1, ## Heading 2 and ### Heading 3 - one, two or three # and a space at the start of a line, from the largest heading to the smallest.
• Bold + Italic: ***bold italic*** - three asterisks on each side.

Where the preview differs from Discord

The preview is an approximation of Discord's dark theme, not Discord itself. Links, mentions and custom emoji show as plain text, code is not colored, and most other markdown that is not in the list above shows as typed. To be sure how an important message looks, send it in a test channel first.

Wide text: full-width characters

The Wide Text Generator swaps the 94 ASCII letters, digits and symbols (A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and signs such as !, ? and @) for their full-width Unicode forms, so ABC becomes ＡＢＣ, and turns each space into a wide space. Every other character, such as é, Cyrillic, Chinese or emoji, stays as it is. Click Copy next to the result and paste it into Discord as ordinary text. To make text larger, use a heading instead.

More free Discord tools

• Colored Text Generator - Color a Discord message with an ANSI code block
• Message Length Counter - Count a message's characters against Discord's limits
• Text-to-Emoji Lab - Convert text into big emoji letters

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