# Proper text formating for html data?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/proper-text-formating-for-html-data/175341
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 7, 2021, 3:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/proper-text-formating-for-html-data/175341 "2021-01-07T03:17:13Z")
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### Author:  [@omarfilip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/omarfilip)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2021, 3:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/proper-text-formating-for-html-data/175341/2 "2021-01-07T03:53:20Z")
> [@mindeswx](#):
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> How it’s called?
Discourse uses Markdown-it.
> [@Developer's guide to Markdown extensions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/developers-guide-to-markdown-extensions/66023):
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> Discourse uses a Markdown engine called [Markdown-it](https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it). Here are some dev notes that will help you either fix bugs in core or create your new plugins. The Basics Discourse only contains a few helpers on top of the engine, so the vast majority of learning that needs to be done, is understanding Markdown It. The [docs directory](https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it/tree/master/docs) contains the current documentation. I strongly recommend reading: The [architecture document](https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it/blob/master/docs/architecture.md) to understand at a top level how the engine works. [Development](https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it/blob/master/docs/development.md) for basic d…
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