Last modified: 2024-10-09

Markdown Formatting in the New Signing Experience

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Text within the Signer Experience can be using Markdown. Formatting is supported within the following area of the Signer Experience:

  • Thank You Summary page
  • Error pages
  • Alerts
Format Description Example Output
Bold

To create bold text, wrap the text in double asterisks.

To avoid creating bold text, place a backslash in front of each asterisk, and then escape it (total of two backslashes).

**bold text**
\\*\\*ignore bold text**
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Italics

To create italicized text, wrap the text in single asterisks.

To avoid creating italic text, place a backslash in front of your text.

*italic text*

\*ignore italic text*
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New Line

To create a line break, add a backslash, followed by an n (\n).

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Spaces To add more than one space in a line, use a non-breaking space.    
Indentation

To create an indentation, start a line with a ">".

To end indentation and start a new paragraph, put newline character "\n" twice.

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\nparagraph with indentation line 2\n\na new paragraph

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Headers To create a header, start a line with a hash "#". The more "#'s" that you use, the smaller the header will be. The headers must be preceded by a new line "\n".

# header1\n

## header2\n

### header3\n

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Unordered Lists To create unordered lists, use either asterisks "*", plus "+", or hyphens "-" as list markers.

* item1\n

- item2\n

+ item3\n

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Ordered lists To create ordered lists use numbers followed by period "." or right parenthesis ")".

1. item1

2. item2

3. item3

or

1) item1

2) item2

3) item3

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Nested lists

To create nested lists start with a new line and use four (4) spaces in front of every sub-list item.

1) item1\n    a. sub-item11\n    b. sub-item12\n    c. sub-item13

2) item1\n    a. sub-item21\n    b. sub-item22\n    c. sub-item23

3) item1\n    a. sub-item31\n    b. sub-item32\n    c. sub-item33

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  Some of the lists above have indentations in front. If this is the case you, use a new line character (\n) twice after the list. 1) list1\n2) list2\n3) list3\n\na new paragraph Capture
Links

To create a link, enclose your text with square brackets [],

To create inline links, enclose the link URL with parenthesis ().

To display only the link without any text, enclose the link URL with greater than and less than characters <>. Note that the URL must include either "http://" or "https://".

[Link text](Link URL) [click me](https://www.example.com)

<Link URL> <https://www.example.com>

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