How do I format (bold, italic, etc) in a message?

Category: Messages · April 18th, 2007

TeamSnap uses simple codes to identify where you want to apply formatting like bold, italics, etc. (For you geeks out there, we’re using the Textile markup language.)

To make something appear bold, you just put an asterisk on either side of the word or phrase, like this:

That burrito was *so hot*, thought Paris Hilton.

That will display in your message like this:

That burrito was so hot, thought Paris Hilton.

It works the same way with italic:

“OMG, I _totally_ burned my mouth,” she yelped.

And it looks like this:

“OMG, I totally burned my mouth,” she yelped.

Bulleted lists can be created by starting a line with an asterisk and a space, like so:

Things that are so hot:

* Me
* The sun
* That burrito

Which looks like this after you save your message:

Things that are so hot:

  • Me
  • The sun
  • That burrito

You can also include links by using this syntax:

“linkedtext”:URL

For example:

I wonder how hot “the sun”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun is?

Displays as this:

I wonder how hot the sun is?

Lastly, you can link to an image on the Internet like so:

!imageURL!

For example:

!http://www.sonshi.com/paris-hilton-suntzu.jpg!

Displays this:

For more information and more advanced formatting codes, check out the Wikipedia entry for the Textile markup language.