Telegram Message Formatting

Telegram Message Formatting

Telegram uses a subset of Markdown. These rules ensure your messages render correctly.

Supported Formatting

Critical Rules

1. No nested formatting — bold inside italic, code inside bold all fail silently.

- **bold *and italic** text*   ← BROKEN
+ **bold text** and *italic*   ← OK separately

2. Link text cannot contain formatting — **[bold link](url)** does NOT work. Use [bold link](url) in bold context instead.

3. Code blocks need a language hint for syntax highlighting on mobile:

```python
print("hello")
```

4. Emoji within formatting — most emoji work inside bold/italic but some break. Test if unsure.

5. Escape special characters with backslash if they appear literally:

\*not italic\* \`not code\`

Headers

Only ## Header (level 2) renders as a header. # and ### show as plain text.

## This renders as header
# This does not

Best Practices