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title: "Formatting with Markdown"
slug: "formatting-with-markdown"
updated: 2025-07-02T17:35:10Z
published: 2025-07-02T17:35:10Z
canonical: "docs.onespan.com/formatting-with-markdown"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.onespan.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Formatting with Markdown
To download the full code sample see our [Code Share](https://community.onespan.com/documentation/onespan-sign/codeshare/markdown-formatting-action) site.
Text within the Signer Experience can be using Markdown. Formatting is supported within the following area of the Signer Experience:
- Thank You Summary page
- Error pages
- Alerts
| Format | Description | Example | Output |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bold | To create bold text, wrap the text in double asterisks. To avoid creating bold text, place a backslash in front of each asterisk, and then escape it (total of two backslashes). | ```plaintext **bold text** ``` ```plaintext \\*\\*ignore bold text** ``` |  |
| Italics | To create italicized text, wrap the text in single asterisks. To avoid creating italic text, place a backslash in front of your text. | *italic text* ```plaintext \*ignore italic text* ``` |  |
| New Line | To create a line break, add a backslash, followed by an n (\n). | the first line\nthe second line |  |
| Spaces | To add more than one space in a line, use a non-breaking space. | | |
| Indentation | To create an indentation, start a line with a ">". To end indentation and start a new paragraph, put newline character "\n" twice. | > \nparagraph with indentation line 2\n\na new paragraph |  |
| Headers | To create a header, start a line with a hash "#". The more "#'s" that you use, the smaller the header will be. The headers must be preceded by a new line "\n". | # header1\n ## header2\n ### header3\n |  |
| Unordered Lists | To create unordered lists, use either asterisks "*", plus "+", or hyphens "-" as list markers. | * item1\n - item2\n + item3\n |  |
| Ordered lists | To create ordered lists use numbers followed by period "." or right parenthesis ")". | 1. item1 2. item2 3. item3 or 1) item1 2) item2 3) item3 |  |
| Nested lists | To create nested lists start with a new line and use four (4) spaces in front of every sub-list item. | 1) item1\n a. sub-item11\n b. sub-item12\n c. sub-item13 2) item1\n a. sub-item21\n b. sub-item22\n c. sub-item23 3) item1\n a. sub-item31\n b. sub-item32\n c. sub-item33 |  |
| | Some of the lists above have indentations in front. If this is the case you, use a new line character (\n) twice after the list. | 1) list1\n2) list2\n3) list3\n\na new paragraph |  |
| Links | To create a link, enclose your text with square brackets [], To create inline links, enclose the link URL with parenthesis (). To display only the link without any text, enclose the link URL with greater than and less than characters <>. Note that the URL must include either "http://" or "https://". | [Link text](Link URL) [click me](https://www.example.com) |  |