Message Formatting (Telegram HTML-Compatible)

This page describes how to format messages using Telegram-compatible HTML markup.
Use these tags if you want your messages to appear correctly when sent through Telegram bots or clients that accept HTML formatting.

Basic Formatting Tags

New line

/n

Bold

<b>Your text</b>

Italic

<i>Your text</i>

Underline

<u>Your text</u>

Strikethrough

<s>Your text</s>

Monospace

<code>Your text</code>

Preformatted block

<pre>Your text</pre>

Preformatted block with language

<pre><code class="language-python">\nprint("Hello")\n</code></pre>

Links

Standard link

<a href="https://example.com">Open website</a>

Special Notes

• Telegram only allows specific HTML tags - others will be stripped.
• Tags must be properly closed or formatting will break.
• Nested tags work but must be valid HTML.
• Make sure you are using correct espace characters for preferred POST method. Often you would need to escape <, >, ""

Examples

Example 1: Multiple styles

<b>Bold</b>, <i>Italic</i>, <u>Underline</u>, <s>Strike</s>

Example 2: Code snippet

<pre><code class=\"language-js\">\nconsole.log(\"Hello!\");\n</code></pre>