Formatting labels

1. Go to the form element where you want to format the label.
2. Enter your desired text with Markdown formatting in the label input field.

The label of the form element will be formatted accordingly.

The following formatting options can be used for form element labels:

To display text in bold, place the desired text between double asterisks or underscores:

For italic text, use single asterisks or underscores:

As described in the article Adding links to forms, you can insert links to additional content:

To underline text, place double plus signs before and after the desired text:

To display text with a strikethrough, place double tilde characters before and after the desired text:

But what do you do when you want to use special characters in a label that are normally used for Markdown formatting? If you use them multiple times in a lable, they will be interpreted as formatting instructions. The characters will then not be displayed as normal text characters as desired, but will automatically trigger formatting.

Markdown recognizes certain character combinations as formatting commands – for example *Text* for italics or **Text** for bold. These formatting rules are applied whenever characters appear in corresponding patterns.

1. Single characters are usually unproblematic. When a character like an asterisk appears only once within a label, it will typically be displayed as entered.
2. Problems arise when characters appear in patterns that Markdown interprets as formatting. For example, two asterisks enclosing text will be recognized as an instruction for italic formatting.

How to display the characters as normal text

If you want to display such characters as normal text, place a backslash (\) directly before each formatting character:

The characters will then appear exactly as you wrote them – without unwanted formatting.