Telegram markdown syntax: Bold *and* italic? (September 2018)

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Nemgathos picture Nemgathos · Sep 25, 2018 · Viewed 57.5k times · Source

By looking at Telegram’s “Markdown Syntax” Wiki page, it should be relatively easy to create text that is bold and italic.

There, it says that

*this is in italic* and _so is this_

**this is in bold** and __so is this__

***this is bold and italic*** and ___so is this___

results in

this is in italic and so is this

this is in bold and so is this

this is bold and italic and so is this

.

But using

***this is bold and italic***

results in

*this is bold an italic*

and

___this is bold and italic___

results in

_this is bold an italic_

.

That is: Telegram’s markdown interpretation must have changed.

When programming a Telegram bot, it is possible to use HTML instead of markdown, but I would like to simply write some bold and italic text to my friends while regularly chatting with them.

Using the markdown syntax that is used here does not work. I already tried it.

Answer

ragip picture ragip · May 15, 2020

How to bold or italic font on Telegram?

  • Bold: Double * = **hello world**
  • Italic: Double _ = __ hello world__
  • Monospace: Triple ` = ```hello world```

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