Zulip uses a variant of GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) to allow you to easily format your messages.
## Summary
For a summary of message formatting in Zulip, click the  icon located at the bottom left of your messaging box or the cog () in the upper right corner of the right sidebar and choose “Message formatting” from the drop-down menu.
To include hyperlinks in your messages, you can either enter the link's url address directly or surround the link's display text with`[brackets]` and the url address of the link in `(parentheses)` immediately after.
Zulip currently does not support image embedding through links.
To link to another stream in one of your messages, you can either type `#streamName` and click the stream name in the popup, or you can start with `#` and surround your message with double asteriks `**`.
Zulip features a variety of emojis provided by the [Noto Project](https://code.google.com/p/noto/). To include emojis in your messages, surround the emoji phrase with `:colons:`.
A dropdown will appear with suggested emojis as you enter the emoji phrase.
In addition, to highlight language syntax, add the file extension of the language (for example, Python would be **.py**) right after the first set of back-ticks.
To insert quotes, you can either add a greater-than symbol ```>``` and a space before your phrase or submit it as a quote block by following the code syntax highlighting format.
