The long text field can have rich text enabled for headings, lists, code apps, and text formatting (bold, italic, strikethrough). In the API, the input and output for this formatted text uses Markdown, a lightweight and readable syntax. Originally invented by John Gruber, today Markdown is a popular way to format text and there exists many dialects and extensions. Airtable supports a variant of Markdown that is similar to most Markdown dialect syntaxes, but tweaked for the rich text formats. For more information on writing and formatting with Markdown in Airtable, check out the Markdown syntax for Airtable article.
For examples of how to use Airtable's API to read or update markdown returned by the API, please see our API documentation here.
To get an even simpler version of this text if formatting is not needed, a formula with just rich text will result in just the text and line breaks.
FAQs
Is Airtable's Markdown compliant with other forms of markdown?
Markdown in Airtable is not compliant with the two most popular forms of Markdown: Markdoc and Github Flavored Markdown. As a result, you may need to experiment or create workarounds when attempting to create URLs.