Jira Formatting Syntaxes Comparison

Jira has been supporting two different text formatting styles: old wiki syntax (Server instances and long-living Jira Cloud instances) and new markdown syntax (default option in Jira Cloud with new issue view ).

Canned Responses for Jira Cloud comes with its own built-in visual editor which also supports the new markdown syntax.

Your templates should follow the syntax supported by your Jira instance.

Check out the main differences in text formatting:

Element

Wiki Style Syntax (old issue view)

Markdown Syntax (new issue view)

Element

Wiki Style Syntax (old issue view)

Markdown Syntax (new issue view)

Headings

h1. Biggest heading title h6. Smallest heading

# Biggest heading title ###### Smallest heading

Text effects

Strong

*This is bold*

**This is bold** __This is bold__

Emphasis

_This looks italic for me_

*This looks italic for me*

Quote

{quote} here is quotable content to be quoted {quote}

bq. Some block quoted text

> here is quotable > content to be quoted



Citation

??This text is cited??

No direct translation. Can be replaced with Emphasis.

Strikethrough

-This text looks deleted-

~~This text looks deleted~~

Underscore

+This text looks underscored+

Not available

Monospace

{{This text is monospaced}}

`This text is monospaced`

Other

Table

||Syntax||Description|| |Header|Title| |Paragraph|Text|

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

Link

[title|https://www.example.com]

[title](https://www.example.com)

Image

!path/to/image!

![alt text](path/to/image)

Ordered list

# First item # Second item # Third item

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

Unordered list

- First item - Second item - Third item

- First item - Second item - Third item

You may also want to check the general markdown syntax for more elements.