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Markdown is now available with Web Stories Today

Markdown is widely used in blogging, online forums, documentation pages, and readme files and is now available to Web Stories.
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Markdown is an easy-to-use way for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. Markdown is widely used in blogging, instant messaging, online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files and is now available to Web Stories.

It was John Gruber and Aaron Swartz who created Markdown in 2004

Advantages of using Markdown

Markdown makes writing on the web fast and easy.

Advantages of using Markdown with Web Stories

Web stories are a way to offer a dynamic user experience, mixing video, images and text. Why should the text be boring and flat? It shouldn’t! And markdown comes into play perfectly.

Web stories' swipe-up feature offers readers more context, and with markdown, you can make those texts more appealing by adding headings, bold and italic text, lists and more.

An example of web stories using markdown

Recipes are a typical way using markdown lists:
What are the top 7 most popular cocktails

This feature is currently available inside the Web Stories Today Builder.

We hope to see more Web Stories builders to add markdown support!

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