Rich Text

The Rich text field is an extension of the Long text field that supports text formatting. You can style content with options such as bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, horizontal rules, ordered and unordered lists, code blocks, quotes and more.

Create a Rich text field

Click the + icon to the right of the Fields header.
Enter a field name (optional).
Select Long text as the field type.
Turn on the Rich text toggle.
(Optional) Set a default value for the field.
(Optional) Add a description.
Click Save Field. NocoDB adds the field to your table.

Refer to the general guidelines on creating a field.

Enter the default value without quotes. Use the Enter key to add a new line.

Cell display

In the table view, the Rich text field shows as a single-line cell. To see or edit the full content, click the Expand icon.

Formatting options

NocoDB supports Markdown syntax to format the text. The sections below explain the formatting options in the rich text editor.

Heading

To create a heading, put the # symbol before your heading text. The number of # symbols sets the hierarchy level and the font size of the heading. NocoDB supports three levels of headings.

# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading 3

Text formatting

You can emphasize text with bold, italic, strikethrough or underline formatting. The table below shows the syntax, keyboard shortcut and output for each formatting option.

Style	Syntax	Keyboard shortcut	Output
Bold	`bold text`	`Ctrl/Cmd + B`	bold text
Italic	`italicized text`	`Ctrl/Cmd + I`	italicized text
Strikethrough	`~~strikethrough text~~`	`Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + X`	~~strikethrough text~~
Underline		`Ctrl/Cmd + U`	underlined text

Quote block

To quote text, start the line with a >.

Usage

normal text
> quoted text

Display

normal text

quoted text

Code block

To create a code block, put 3 backticks before and after the code.

Usage

```
This is a code block
```

Display

This is a code block

Link

To add inline links, use the Link option in the rich text toolbar. You can also use the Markdown syntax [link text](URL).

Bullet List

To create an unordered list, use the Bulleted list option in the toolbar. You can also start lines with -, + or *.

Usage

- Item 1
- Item 2

+ Item 1
+ Item 2

* Item 1
* Item 2

Display

Item 1
Item 2

Item 1
Item 2

Item 1
Item 2

To create nested lists, use the tab key to indent list items and the shift + tab key to outdent them.

Numbered List

To create an ordered list, use the Numbered list option in the toolbar. You can also start lines with numbers.

Usage

1. Item 1
2. Item 2

Display

Item 1
Item 2

Task list

To create a task list, use the Task list option in the toolbar. You can also use [ ] for incomplete tasks and [x] for completed tasks.

Usage

[ ] Item 1
[x] Item 2

Display

Item 1
Item 2

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