# Allowing Markdown when replacing in Watched Words

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-markdown-when-replacing-in-watched-words/272014
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** watched-words
**Created:** [July 18, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-markdown-when-replacing-in-watched-words/272014 "2023-07-18T19:21:14Z")
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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2024, 9:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-markdown-when-replacing-in-watched-words/272014/3 "2024-05-14T09:50:02Z")

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I think you may be able to achieve this using HTML now:

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/26883>
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> This adds support for Watched Words to allow replacement with HTML content rathe…r than always replacing with text.
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> Can be useful when automatically replacing with the \`\<abbr\>\` tag for example.
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> Discussion - https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-text-with-more-than-just-links/305672

([Replace text with more than just links? - #23 by zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-text-with-more-than-just-links/305672/23))

You can now select ‘Outputs HTML in the replacement’ as an option for each Watched Word in Replace and Link.

Markdown is still not supported, but I think that’s more of a #Contribute > Feature request as well, so I’ll slide this over. 👍

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