Getting Up to Speed with Markdown

There are a bunch of places where you, as a Losant Developer, will need to type up information to be displayed to an end-user. For example, if you were using the Indoor Position Block, you can customize the popup bubble that gets displayed on the Losant Dashboard like so:

There you can use a combination of Handlebars and Markdown! Both are extremely powerful when used together. Markdown is a simple and easy-to-use markup language you can use to format text. In Markdown, you can create headers, bold or italicize text, or even create links and more:

Style Markdown
Heading ## H2
Bold **bold text**
Italic *italicized text*
Link [title](https://www.example.com)

Pro Tip: In Markdown, you can add two spaces to create a new line.

Markdown is in other places in Losant from creating Notes in the Workflow Engine to customizing Dashboard Blocks.

We will be back next week with another tip. Feel free to send us some tip ideas! We would love to hear from you about what you would like to learn. Stay connected! :slight_smile: