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title: Rich formatting using markdown (beta)
description: "Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain-text-formatting syntax. Markdown is a way to style text inside your checklist. You can format words as bold or italic, add code blocks and bulleted lists are just a few of the things we…"
url: "https://support.appbox.ai/docs/checklist-for-jira-cloud/checklist/rich-formatting-using-markdown-beta/"
updated: "2020-11-14"
category: Checklist
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# Rich formatting using markdown (beta)

Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain-text-formatting syntax. Markdown is a way to style text inside your checklist. You can format words as bold or italic, add code blocks and bulleted lists are just a few of the things we can do with Markdown. Mostly, Markdown is just regular text with a few non-alphabetic characters thrown in, like # or *.

You can learn more about [markdown syntaxes here.](https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/)

**Note -** Markdown is disabled by default, to enable them, go to *Settings > Enable Markdown*.