Bold and italic formatting for notifications

[brki]

On https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/alerting/configure-notifications/template-notifications/ , it says that with a notification template you can:

Format text with bold and italic styles, and add or remove line breaks.

If this is possible, please document how to do it.

Or, if it is not possible, I guess the documentation should say something like "you can not use any HTML or Markdown formatting, only plain text will be rendered".

I notice that the default template rendered for email does have some formatting.

Background: I'm trying to create an email notification, and am wondering how I can format the text. These would be nice, if available:

• bold
• italic
• HTML link with title, e.g. [Link title](URL)
• bullet point lists
• "code" blocks, like:

foo
bar
baz

I blindly tried things like **stars for bold text** or <b>bold text with html tag</b>, to no avail.

[softho0n]

Hi @brki,

Our in-house system used templates until recently and replaced them with webhook. I often used bold and italic while using templates, but I'll add a guide to that part and reflect it. If I post PR, I'll ping you again. Thank you!