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Message formatting
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.
The following modal window will appear.
Emphasis
You can surround your text with a combination of asterisks * and tildes ~ to emphasize words or phrases in your messages.
Italics
For italics, surround your text with *asterisks*.
Bold
For bold text, surround your text with **two asterisks**.
Strikethrough
For strikethrough text, surround your text with ~~two tildes~~.
Extra emphasis
To add more variety, flavor, and emphasis to your messages, you can combine different styles of formatting.
Links
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.
Stream 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 **.
Lists
Begin each item in your list with * an asterisk followed by a space to include lists in your messages.
Emojis
Zulip features a variety of emojis provided by the Noto Project. 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.
A complete list of emojis can be found here.
Mentions
To call the attention of another member, you can alert them by typing @**username**
If you type @ and then begin typing the user's email address or the user's name, the system will offer you auto-completion suggestions.
Typing @**all** will alert all users in the stream, and a confirmation message will appear.
For more information on mentions, visit here.
Code
You can surround a portion of code with `back-ticks` to display it as inline code.
Multi-line blocks of code are either fenced by lines with `````` three back-ticks or indented with four spaces.<code>
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.
Quotes
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.
