Lightweight Markup Languages
There are various text markup schemes to make it easy to format text using simple symbols, used on websites and user forums. The most popular one is probably Markdown, but scroll down to see some others!
Markdown
- Markdown - markup scheme created by John Gruber in 2004, which became very popular for writing blog or forum posts.
# Heading 1
## Heading 2
**bold**
_italics_
[Wikipedia](https://www.wikipedia.org/ "Wikipedia")
Wikipedia Wikitext / Wikicode
- Wikitext - wiki markup used by Wikipedia and related sites.
= Heading 1 =
== Heading 2 ==
'''bold'''
''italics''
[https://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia]
Creole
- Creole - "Standardized" core Wikitext markup
= Heading 1 =
== Heading 2 ==
**bold**
//italics//
[https://www.wikipedia.org/|Wikipedia]
AsciiDoc
= Heading 1
== Heading 2
**bold**
__italics__
https://www.wikipedia.org/[Wikipedia]
Textile
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
*bold*
_italics_
"Wikipedia":https://www.wikipedia.org/
reStructuredText (rst, reST)
Heading 1
=========
Heading 2
---------
**bold**
*italics*
.. _Wikipedia: https://www.wikipedia.org/
BBCode
- BBCode - bulletin board code
[heading]Heading 1[/heading]
[b]bold[b]
[i]italics[i]
[url=https://www.wikipedia.org/]Wikipedia[/url]
Pendown
- Pendown - lightweight markup for colored documents
! Heading 1
!! Heading 2
**bold**
%%italics%%
@@https://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia@@
Tip
Why not just try adding some bold (**bold**
) or italics (_italics_
) when entering text in a chat or in a forum. A majority of systems support such a scheme, especially Markdown.