# Full markdown support in Chat for bots

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-markdown-support-in-chat-for-bots/312003>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** chat, completed, ai\
**Created:** [June 13, 2024, 10:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-markdown-support-in-chat-for-bots/312003 "2024-06-13T22:32:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 13, 2024, 10:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-markdown-support-in-chat-for-bots/312003/1 "2024-06-13T22:32:13Z")

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It would be nice if the Chat window had full markdown support. Currently, it appears to intentionally not render markdown headers, as discussed here.

> [@Markdown headers aren't interpreted in Chat](https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown-headers-arent-interpreted-in-chat/312000):
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> The Chat window seems to interpret most markdown such as bold, italics, tables, lists, etc… but it doesn’t interpret headers. For example, if I post the following ### Hello This is a test. in a both topic and in a chat, it will render as a header in the topic but in the chat it will show the ### as 3 pound signs. Is this intentional? Or a possible issue?

I agree that most _people_ would not type markdown headers in a chat but LLMs might. As chatbots are becoming more common, it would be nice if any markdown sent by an LLM displayed correctly in the Chat window.

With RAG support bots in particular, the LLM receives raw post content from topics which may contain markdown headers. If it includes those headers in the chat reply, they don’t work as is.

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