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title: "Message Formatting - Help Desk - mssgs"
description: "Markdown for bold, italic, code and quotes - plus emoji, custom emoji and shortcodes."
canonical: https://mss.gs/en/help/messaging/message-formatting
language: en
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# Message Formatting

Markdown for bold, italic, code and quotes - plus emoji, custom emoji and shortcodes.

mssgs speaks markdown. Type it naturally and it renders beautifully - including full syntax highlighting for code.

## Markdown cheat sheet

| You type | You get |
| --- | --- |
| **bold** | **bold** |
| *italic* | *italic* |
| ~~strike~~ | strike |
| `inline code` | inline code |
| ```js … ``` | code block with syntax highlighting |
| > quote | quote block |

## Emoji everywhere

- **Emoji picker** - full searchable picker in the input bar

- **Custom emoji** - every community can upload its own

- **Shortcodes** - type :fire: and it becomes the emoji, image shortcodes included

- **Reactions** - long-press any message to react with emoji

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