As you may have noticed, when using the description editor in a sketch, you can use Markdown syntax in order to create rich text descriptions.
Markdown comes in different flavours. In this guide you can see the Markdown syntax supported by the description editor.
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Description editor markdown

Paragraphs

A single line of text is a paragraph.
A paragraph that follows, should be seperated by at least one new line.

Markdown

An awesome paragraph

An other awesome paraph

Result

An awesome paragraph

An other awesome paragraph

Headings

All six level of HTML headings are supported.

Markdown

# h1
## h2
### h3
#### h4
##### h5
###### h6

Result

h1

h2

h3

h4

h5
h6

Additionally you can style level 1 and level 2 heading as follows.

Markdown

heading 1
---------

heading 2
=========

Result

h1

h2

Lists

You can create both ordered and unordered lists.

Markdown

- item
- item
- item
1. item
2. item
3. item

Result

  • item
  • item
  • item
  1. item
  2. item
  3. item

Horizontal rulers

In case you want to insert horizontal rulers.

Markdown

***
or
---

Result


Hyperlinks

You can insert hyperlinks.

Markdown

[codebender](https://codebender.cc)

Result

codebender

Images

And finally link images.

Markdown

![logo](https://codebender.cc/favicon.ico)

Result

logo