---
title: Markdown support
url: https://docs.triply.cc/reference/markdown/
description: Where TriplyDB accepts Markdown, and which formatting features each place supports.
---

# Markdown support

Triply allows rich text formatting to be used in the following places:

- Dataset description
- Account description
- Saved Query description
- Data Story elements
- Site welcome message

The following Markdown elements are supported:

## Headings

Headings are used to divide a text into different sections. The hash
character (`#`) at the beginning of a line indicates a heading is
used. Multiple hash characters indicate nested headings.

```md
# Heading 1

## Heading 2

### Heading 3

#### Heading 4

##### Heading 5

###### Heading 6
```

## Text styling

| _Style_       | _Syntax_            | _Output_          |
| ------------- | ------------------- | ----------------- |
| Bold          | `**bold**`          | **bold**          |
| Italic        | `_italic_`          | _italic_          |
| Strikethrough | `~~strikethrough~~` | ~~strikethrough~~ |

## Hyperlinks

| _Style_     | _Syntax_                     | _Output_                   |
| ----------- | ---------------------------- | -------------------------- |
| Raw URL     | `<https://triply.cc>`        | <https://triply.cc>        |
| Labeled URL | `[label](https://triply.cc)` | [label](https://triply.cc) |

Notice that URLs can also be relative. This allows you to refer to
other datasets, saved queries, etc. by using relative paths.

## Code

There are options for formatting in-line code as well as multi-line
code blocks.

### In-line code

Code can also be used in-line with single backticks:

```md
Use `code` inside a sentence.
```

### Multi-line code blocks

Multi-line code blocks start and end with three consecutive backticks.
The following Markdown denotes a SPARQL code block:

<pre>
```sparql
select * {
  graph ?g {
    ?s ?p ?o.
  }
}
```
</pre>

The above is rendered as follows:

```sparql
select * {
  graph ?g {
    ?s ?p ?o.
  }
}
```

### Code language

The opening backticks are optionally following by the name of the code
language. The following code languages are supported:

| **Language** | **Syntax**   |
| ------------ | ------------ |
| SPARQL       | `sparql`     |
| Turtle       | `ttl`        |
| TypeScript   | `typescript` |
| R            | `r`          |
| Python       | `python`     |

The other supported languages are: Bash (`bash`), C (`c`), C++
(`cpp`), C# (`csharp`), Extended Backus-Naur Form (`ebnf`), Go (`go`),
Haskell (`haskell`), Java (`java`), JavaScript (`javascript`), LaTeX
(`latex`), Makefile (`makefile`), Markdown (`markdown`), Objective C
(`objectivec`), Pascal (`pascal`), Perl (`perl`), Powershell
(`powershell`), Prolog (`prolog`), Regular Expression (`regex`), Ruby
(`ruby`), Scala (`scala`), SQL (`sql`), Yaml (`yaml`).

## Related

- [Build a data story](https://docs.triply.cc/how-to/data-stories/) — story paragraphs are written in this Markdown
- [Add data](https://docs.triply.cc/how-to/add-data/) — a dataset description is too