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Jira has been supporting two different text formatting styles – old wiki syntax (mostly on old Server instances) and new markdown syntax.

On instances with Jira new issue view (including Cloud) text fields usually come with visual editors, which accept new markdown syntax.

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


Please see examples to see the differences in text formatting:

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 want to also check out general markdown syntax in case you find that some elements are missing in Atlassian documentation.


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