Facebook Is Testing Rich Text Formatting With Markdown

74shares

After years of frustration, Facebook could soon allow us to format our status updates by allowing Markdown formatting. As explained by Wikipedia, Markdown is a lightweight markup language that allows you to convert plain text into rich text and HTML.

Click To Tweet

If you like our stories, there is an easy way to stay updated:
Follow @wersm

The feature was discovered by @cristina_tnv from Spain (and brought to our attention by @vladcalus – thanks!)

https://twitter.com/cristina_tnv/status/753233662070681602

We were expecting to one day be able to add formatting to our status updates, and we may now get full HTML formatting options. This, dear reader, is really exciting!

The Facebook text formatting help shows how it is possible to apply various rich text formatting options (bold, italics, strikethrough, lists and numbered lists and quotes) but also indicates how you can bring an HTML structure to your updates (H1, H2, …, horizontal lines and links of course).

We tested it ourselves and it works perfectly:

For now, Markdown formatting seems to be only available on Event pages. But, if it happens to be rolled out globally, this would be the biggest change to Facebook formatting since the company released the new Newsfeed a few years ago. A real game-changer.

Being able to use rich text (HTML) in Facebook status updates will be the biggest ever game changer!

Click To Tweet

If you like our stories, there is an easy way to stay updated:
Follow @wersm

Are you as excited as I am?

Also Read: Twitter Now Lets You Share High-Quality GIFs