"Markdown" messages?

[nic0lette]

Is it possible to send messages using the markdown flavor supported by Matrix?

That is, something like: > This is quoted text, or This text is a **bold** message?

[skylord123]

I created this issue to track this:
#53

So currently the front-end of element converts markdown to HTML and HTML is all the matrix server sees. We would have to port the part of code from matrix-react-sdk that does this conversion.

In the mean time you can manually do HTML. What I do is send a message formatted in markdown then view the message source in element to see how it converts to HTML then build your flows using the HTML equivalent.

If you need a list of supported HTML tags you can use that can be found here:
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/blob/a1328d8ef70c6dba620caeab56b3c0a6867f79b4/src/HtmlUtils.tsx#L234-L297

And for future reference this is the part of matrix-react-sdk that parses the markdown to HTML:
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/blob/a1328d8ef70c6dba620caeab56b3c0a6867f79b4/src/editor/serialize.ts#L141

But yeah, this would definitely be handy to have built-in.

[nic0lette]

Oh, awesome. And TIL that this is done in the front-end client, not the server =o Thank you!