Text Formats - Send Messages

(Naran M) #1

Hi,

When sending messages, how do we apply format on certain text?

Thanks,
Naran

Webview equivalent in Web chat?
(Karen Barker) #2

Hi Naran,

The ability to format text in messages is platform dependent as follows:

Facebook
Doesn’t support any form of markdown

Telegram
As shown in the telegram docs here, telegram only support limited Markdown - bold, italics, inline links and preformatted code. You can however send a message as HTML as well and the current supported tags here are < b>, < i>, < a>, < code> and < pre>. In order to use these features you would need to use a Bot > Make a Custom Request action.

Here is an example flow that shows using both markdown or HTML for bold and italics.

Slack
Slack messages may be formatted using a simple markup language similar to Markdown. Supported formatting includes: pre, code, _italic_, *bold*, and even ~strike~.

For more information on these please see the Slack documentation here.

Web Messenger
Supports _italic_ and **bold**
I hope this helps :thumbsup:

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(Naran M) #3

Thanks Karen. Currently, I am using only web messenger how can I use the italic format…?

-Naran

(Karen Barker) #4

Hi Naran,

Sorry about that. I’ve editted my above message so that the methods to use the markdowns show. The community page also uses some markdown language and converted the tags automatically. :see_no_evil:

(Naran M) #5

Brilliant… Thanks Karen

(I Magiс) #6

Any news about FB Messenger? https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1098658053426098176