Formatting messages does not support markdown anymore?

[danielkcz]

Description

It seems that Slack has changed how messages are formatted. When pasting a text hello **world** into any Slack window, it does not get transformed anymore as it used to and is displayed as-is. The same happens when sending a message through @slack/webhooks.

The official documentation hasn't caught up with that change just yet it seems. I am not sure how are we suppose to format messages.

I don't need any sort of interactive message, just a simple highlight of important pieces of information.

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[stevengill]

Hey @FredyC,

A few possible things going on.

Firstly, for bolding you only need one asterisk *wolrd*. Checkout our formatting messages guide to see the supported markup.

Slack released a new WYSIWYG messaging tool. This is the new default in the desktop client (and web browser). It looks like the following:

When I copy and paste hello *world* into the WYSIWYG message box, it doesn't convert it to markup. To me, this seems like it could be a bug. If I am typing instead of copying, hello *world* does bold.

If I turn off WYSIWYG (going back to the original message box), copying and typing hello *world* both work.

Could you provide a quick sample of it not working with @slack/webhooks for you? It should work. Most text objects support it by setting the type to mrkdwn.

[danielkcz]

You are right, when I copy & paste hello *world* into WYSIWYG, this message pops up and clicking on Apply does transform it correctly. So that was a mistake on my side to use a wrong markup.

Using the same formatting works through webhook as well.

Silly me, not sure why I thought that ** is correct format :) Thank you for a quick response.

[camriera]

Hey @stevengill - Maybe I'm missing something in the documentation but it doesn't appear that slack parses markup for bold or italics for non-word boundaries. As in if I wanted to bold or italicize part of a word.

I'm trying to build a slash command for converting text using the Bionic Reading style, and this is a blocker unless theres a workaround.

Cheers,
Cam