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Discord Formatting Guide

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This guide will teach you how to format messages in Discord using markdown.

1. Basics (Bold, italics, etc.)
2. Spoilers
3. Code Blocks
4. Escaping Text
4.1. Escape Mentions and Emojis
4.2. Normal Emojis
5. Colored Code Blocks
6. Embeds
6.1. Hyperlinks
7. Quoting
8. Lists
8.1. Ordered Lists
8.2. Unordered Lists
9. Headers
10. Protocol Links
11. Invisible Development Link
12. Timestamps
13. Emoticon Commands
14. <id:> Links
See also: Fonts for Discord Channels
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Basics

How to type bold, italics, underline, and strikethrough on Discord

	Input	Output
Bold	text	text
Italics	text or _text_ or /me text	text
Underline	__text__	text
Strikethrough	~~text~~	text

You can also combine these, but in specific orders.

Bold-Italics	*text*	text
Underline-Italics	__text__	text
Bold-Strikethrough	~~text~~	text
Underline-Strikethrough	~~__text__~~	text
All Of The Above	~~__*text*__~~	text

Spoilers

How to type spoilers on Discord

Spoilers can be typed by surrounding text in 2 vertical bars on both sides (|| ||). The text will appear blacked out until clicked on.

\|\|text\|\|
Clicked
\|\| \|\| Only a Space

You can put a spoiler around every single letter to be annoying with our Discord Spoiler Generator.

Code Blocks

How to type code blocks on Discord

By surrounding text in single ` (the one on the ~tilde~ key) you can make a one-line code block. This will not work for multiple lines. Example: `text`

However, if you surround text in ```, you will create a bigger, multi-line code block.
Example:

```
text
text
text```

If you’re using multiple lines, the first line must only contain ```, or else it will be treated as a programming language and not displayed.

All code blocks can also be bolded, italicized, underlined and struckthrough.

Escaping Text

How to escape text on Discord

Putting \ in front of certain characters will cancel it out when Discord tries to format text.

Example: \*text\* Text surrounded by asterisks

Characters you can escape: ~`!@#$%^&*()_-+={[}]:;"'<>,./?|\

Sometimes \'s will mess with art or something. In this case you must type \\ to escape it.

Escaping Mentions and Emojis

If you happen to put a mention or emoji into a code block or escape it, you’ll notice some weird numbers and stuff. This is how Discord actually sees things like @mentions, #channels, emojis and @roles.

User Mention
    \@user#1234 → <@101070932608561152>
    <@USER_ID>
    <@!USER_ID> (An ! means they have a nickname set)
Role Mention
    \@Admin → <@&482038999607934987>
    <@&ROLE_ID>
Emoji
    \:AYAYA: → <:AYAYA:519608855987093529>
    <:NAME:ID>
Animated Emoji
    \:Clap: → <a:Clap:521183484098772993>
    <a:NAME:ID>
Channel Mention
    \#spam → <#481640594435997706>
    <#CHANNEL_ID>

If you enter an invalid ID, things will act strange.

A user mention will turn to <@USER_ID>
A channel mention will turn to #deleted-channel
A role mention will turn to @deleted-role
An emoji will just show the name inside colons

Side note: Escaped user and role mentions will still ping people!

Normal Emojis

How to type normal emojis on Discord

Escaping a regular emoji will render it as your operating system's native version, instead of the default Twemoji design.

Example: :clap: \:clap: :clap: \:clap: :clap: \:clap: or 👏 \👏 👏 \👏 👏 \👏

Discord emojis and native Apple emojis side-by-side

Discord emojis and native Apple emojis side-by-side

Colored Code Blocks

How to type colored text on Discord

If you don’t know about code blocks, read Code Blocks first.

When making a multi-line code block, it can be set to a programming language by typing the language name next to the first ```. When set, Discord will color the text accordingly to the language’s syntax.

Example: ```html
<b>Hello World!</b>```

Hello World text surrounded by HTML 'b' tags

Hello World text surrounded by HTML 'b' tags

Green text, Red text, Blue text, Gray text, Yellow text on Discord

Blue text, Green text, Yellow text, Blue text, Highlighted text on Discord

Blue text, Green text, Yellow text, Red text on Discord

How to type red on Discord
How to type orange on Discord
How to type yellow on Discord

How to type green on Discord
How to type blue on Discord
How to type purple on Discord

How to type pink on Discord
How to type gray on Discord
How to highlight text on Discord

Embeds

Note: You’re going to need a bot that can send embedded messages to do this part. For this, we will be using a custom bot with an !embed command.

All methods of formatting can be used inside of embeds. However, some things like colored code blocks and hyperlinks do not work in the titles.

Hidden spoiler text shown in an embed

If you have the Manage Messages permission, there should be an X next to the embed when hovering over it. Clicking this will remove the embed for the whole server, but without deleting the message it’s attached to.

Hyperlinks

How to type hyperlinks on Discord

Hyperlinks, or masked links, are pieces of texts that bring you to a URL when clicked on.

To create one, put the following text into an embed or webhook message:
[Text](link)
Example: [Click Here](https://c.r74n.com/)
This will produce something like this: Click Here

Hyperlink shown in an embed

Hyperlink shown in a followed channel message

Also see Protocol Links!

Discord allowed hyperlinks in normal user messages for a brief period, but removed them due to security concerns.

Hyperlink shown in a user message

Quoting

How to type quotes on Discord

Quotes are very similar to embeds, except they can be used by normal users and aren’t collapsable. They still can’t use hyperlinks, but they’re pretty cool anyway.

To make a quote, simply type “> “ and your wanted text. This can only be one line.

Example: > quote

Putting multiple quote lines together will group them into one big quote block.

Example: > quote > quote > quote

And putting “>>> “ will quote the rest of your message! Example:
>>> quote
quote
quote

Lists

Ordered Lists

How to type numbered lists on Discord

To make an ordered list, follow the example below, using numbers followed by a period.

Example: 1. Example Item 2. Example Item 1. Example Sub-item 2. Example Sub-item 1. Example Sub-sub-item 3. Example Item

Unordered Lists

How to type unordered lists on Discord

To make an unordered list, follow the example below, using either asterisks (*) or dashes (-).

Example: * Example Item * Example Item * Example Sub-item - Example Sub-item - Example Sub-sub-item - Example Item

How to type headers on Discord

Headers can be used to denote the titles of sections. They appear larger and bolder than normal text.

Discord supports three levels:
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3

All three header sizes, starting with the largest

All three header sizes, starting with the largest

Protocol Links

How to type protocol links on Discord

Protocol links are used in computers to tell a program to do something.
They look something like this: example://test

In Discord, they do the same thing. However, to type them you need to surround one with < >. You can put any text, as long as :// is in the middle. The left side can contain letters or numbers, and the right side can contain any character except a space. Some characters will be encoded into URL format. For example, ` turns into %60. All capital letters will be turned into lowercase.

Example: <user://1234> <uwu://uwu> <1://2>

There’s also some links that can be used to open applications on whoever clicks’ computer. Here are some of them:

<steam://.> opens Steam
<discord://discordapp.com/channels/@me> opens your friends list
<http://.> opens the default browser
<tel://123> tries to call whatever number is 123 (at least on Mac)
Other things that work the same as <steam://.> include skype, teamspeak, spotify, and many more.

Development Link

How to type invisible text on Discord

There exists a strange link that, once put into chat, will completely vanish. That link is “https://canary.discordapp.com/__development/link/”.

Your message will be blank when you send this alone, probably the shortest a message can ever be.

Any other text will stay the same, though.

Example:
Copy https://canary.discordapp.com/__development/link/ Paste Dump

A blank Discord message

This can be abused, however. You can add text to the link by putting a + at the end.
Example:
https://canary.discordapp.com/__development/link/+CopyPasteDump
This will again be blank.

But what if you add +@everyone or +@here?
Yes, it works…

Invisible message ping

This is used by Discord developers to give out test versions of Discord.

Timestamps

How to type times and dates on Discord

Timestamps can be typed in Discord messages to include a date, time, or countdown that will constantly be updated and in-sync with every user's timezone and date format settings.

The number that is used is a Unix Timestamp. They can be generated using online tools like this one.

Users will see the exact date and time when they hover over the timestamp.

A list of in-line time stamp formatting options on Discord

A list of in-line time stamp formatting options on Discord

You can specify any exact time (to the second) from <t:-8640000000000:R> to <t:8640000000000:R> (April 19, -271821 to September 12, 275760)

<t:123456789:d>	Month/Day/Year
<t:123456789:f>	Month Day, Year Time
<t:123456789:t>	Time
<t:123456789:D>	Month Day, Year
<t:123456789:F>	Weekday, Month Day, Year Time
<t:123456789:R>	Time since
<t:123456789:T>	Hours:Minutes:Seconds

Each format also has a different invalid format message, usually with NaN and undefined.

<t:99999999999999999:d>	NaN/NaN/NaN
<t:99999999999999999:f>	undefined NaN, NaN NaN:NaN PM
<t:99999999999999999:t>	NaN:NaN PM
<t:99999999999999999:D>	undefined NaN, NaN
<t:99999999999999999:F>	undefined, undefined NaN, NaN NaN:NaN PM
<t:99999999999999999:R>	Invalid date
<t:99999999999999999:T>	NaN:NaN:NaN PM

Discord Timestamp Generator

Emoticon Commands

Discord provides some built-in commands to add an emoticon at the end of your message. Type it in the message box followed by your text.

Command	Emoticon
/shrug	¯\_(ツ)_/¯
/tableflip	(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
/unflip	┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)

<id:> Links

You can link to certain sections of your server with these strings. You do NOT need to replace "id" with anything, you can just copy and paste as is.

<id:guide> or <id:home>	Server Guide
<id:browse>	Browse Channels
<id:customize>	Customize Community