Text formatting in the old editor

For information on how to format text in the new editor, see Formatting text.

Highlighting text

Highlighting only works correctly if the markup characters are adjacent to the text.

Markup	Result
`_Italic_` `Italic` `//Italic//`	Italic
`Bold`	Bold
`__Bold__`	Underlined
`~~Strikethrough~~` `--Strikethrough--`	~~Strikethrough~~
`##Monospace##`	`Monospace`
`??Highlighted??`	Highlighted text
`++Small font++`	Small font
`!!Red text!!`	Red text
`!!(blue)Colored text!!` Supported colors: `red`/`крас`/`красный` — Red `green`/ `зел`/`зеленый` — Green `blue`/`син`/`синий` — Blue `cyan`/`голуб`/`голубой` — Cyan `grey`/`gray`/`сер` /`серый` — Gray `yellow`/`жел`/`желтый` — Yellow `orange`/`оранж`/`оранжевый` — Orange `violet`/`фиолет`/`фиолетовый` — Violet	Colored text
Superscript text: `E=mc^^2^^`	E=mc²
Subscript text: `Hvv2vvO`	H₂O

Combining formatting types

When formatting text, you can combine markup elements in any order:

Markup	Result
`[Bold link](http://example.com)`	Bold link
`>Quote with italic text`	>Quote with italic text

Other markup

Element	Markup	Result
Line break	`first line---second line`	first line second line
Pop-up	`(?Term Term definition?)`	Term
Pop-up (term with spaces)	`(?Term with spaces==Term definition?)`	Term with spaces
Color code (long)	`#ff0000`
Color code (short)	`#F00`
Hidden comment	`%%(comments) Hidden text%%`

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