Jira Formatting Syntaxes Comparison

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!}

^{}

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}