Format your messages before sending them.
On desktop (macOS, Windows, or on Wire for web)
- Select the option to preview text formatting in your Settings, in Options:
- Select the formatting button
in your conversation:
- Select an option:
Then select one of the following:
- Heading
- Bold
- Italics
- Strikethrough
- Number list
- Bullet List
- Blockquote
- Link
- Code block
- Inline code
For example, heading:
You can use different formatting options before sending:
On mobile devices
Inside a conversation, select the formatting button to activate markdown.
Then select one of the following:
- Heading
- Bold
- Italics
- Numbered list
- List
Only on iOS
- Code
- # H1, ## H2, ### H3 syntax to create headers of various sizes
- Start a line with a number followed by a period and at least one space to create a numbered list (for example, 1. Buy milk)
- Start a line with either "-", "+", "*", or "• ", followed by at least one space, to create a bullet list (for example, - Buy milk)
- Convert text to a link by using the syntax [link title](link URL).
For example, [tap me!](www.wire.com) will display tap me! as a link. When people tap it they get directly to Wire’s homepage.
Note: for security reasons, this will only work if the link title is not a URL and the link URL is valid.
On all platforms
Wire also supports markdown.
To display italic, bold, or parts of code, it is possible to use the following syntax to format some text inside any conversation on Wire:
| Markdown used | Displayed as |
| _some text_ | some text |
| *some text* | some text |
| **some text** | some text |
| _**some text**_ | some text |
| `some text` | |
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``` |
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[Wire](www.wire.com) |
Wire |
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[Conversation](wire://conversation/conversation-id)
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Link to a conversation |
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[Name](wire://user/user-id) |
Link to a contact’s profile |
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# Heading
Note: If you want to start a line with "#" without that line being a heading, you need to "escape" the symbol with a backslash, like this: "\#" |
Heading
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