# Markdown Support

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/markdown-support/174263>\
**Category:** meta\
**Created:** [January 4, 2006, 8:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/markdown-support/174263 "2006-01-04T08:22:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Wheeler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 8:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/markdown-support/174263/1 "2006-01-04T08:22:52Z")

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It would be incredibly awesome if instead of, or in addition to, bbcodes, we had [Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) support. It allows you to use a nice, logical syntax to get clean, nice code as an output.

Basically, it is just a text formatter. There’s also a php one available here:  
[http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/](http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/)

You can learn about the syntax here:  
[http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax)

And try it out here (with an explanation of most of the tags on the right):  
[http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/dingus](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/dingus)

I’ve been using it for a long time, and I really love it. We should get it, too. 🙂