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Markdown layout options for descriptions

We support Markdown syntax in description fields (survey description, page description and question description). In case you are looking for writing thorough- and well-designed descriptions to guide your voters, you may use it when creating/editing your survey to obtain the following styling elements.

Headers

Typed input (Markdown syntax)

Rendered output

# Heading level 1

Heading level 1

## Heading level 2

Heading level 2

### Heading level 3

Heading level 3

#### Heading level 4

Heading level 4

##### Heading level 5

Heading level 5

###### Heading level 6

Heading level 6

Paragraphs limits and line breaks

Markdown does not require special symbols to mark paragraph limits and line breaks.

  • Use a blank line to separate two paragraphs.

  • End a line with two spaces or more and then type a new line to create a line break.

Typed input (Markdown syntax)

Rendered output

CODE
Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2

Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2

CODE
Paragraph 1  
Paragraph 2

Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2

If your Markdown contains multiple lines, do not use the inline editor to edit your description, since this one does not support multiple lines. Please use the editor in the settings panel instead.

You may see your description nevertheless displayed as one line in the edit view, but this should still not affect your text unless you click on it to edit it.

Inline Mode does not support multiple lines.

Editing the description using the settings panel supports multiple lines.

Text formatting

Typed input (Markdown syntax)

Rendered output

This text is **bold**.

This text is bold.

This is in *italic*.

This is in italic.

This is in both ***bold and italic***.

This is in both bold and italic.

Bullet points

Typed input (Markdown syntax)

Rendered output

- First item
- Second item
- Third item
    - Indented item
    - Indented item
- Fourth item

  • First item

  • Second item

  • Third item

    • Indented Item

    • Indented Item

  • Fourth item

1. First item
2. Second item
3. Third item
4. Fourth item

  1. First item

  2. Second item

  3. Third item

  4. Fourth item

Typed input (Markdown syntax)

Rendered output

If you are interested in IT and science in Munich, join our next [Big Techday](https://www.bigtechday.com/). You can also contact us via [email](bigtechday@tngtech.com).

If you are interested in IT and science in Munich, join our next Big Techday. You can also contact us via email.

If you want to quickly include links, you can enclose the link in brackets like <https://www.bigtechday.com/> or <bigtechday@tngtech.com>.

if you want to quickly include links, you can enclose the link in brackets like https://www.bigtechday.com/ or bigtechday@tngtech.com.

You should check that the links work correctly and have interesting content. 🙂

Images

Images are pretty similar to links in Markdown syntax. You just have to add an exclamation mark. The text would be then an alternative text, while the URL would be the image URL.

Typed input (Markdown syntax)

Rendered output

![alt text](https://picsum.photos/seed/picsum/200/300)

alt text

Tables

To render a table, use pipes (|) to separate columns and three or more hyphens (-) for each column header.

The example

CODE
| Syntax      | Description |
| ----------- | ----------- |
| Header      | Title       |
| Paragraph   | Text        |

will render to:

Syntax

Description

Header

Title

Paragraph

Text

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