[Solved] Markdown support in Chat Control

[Euan]

Hi,

Does the chat control support rendering messages that are in Markdown format? For Example:

**James Smith**

- Department: Development

- Role: Senior Developer

This should show James Smith in bold. If the chat control does not support this can you suggest any approaches to achive this?

Thanks,

Euan

[Didi]

Hi Euan,

The Chat control displays the data that is passed inside its template. So in general Markdown support is not valid request for the Chat control. 

What I can suggest is using a Chat with ItemTemplateSelector: https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/maui/controls/chat/item-template-selector. Then inside the template add a control that supports markdown. This is the option I can suggest. I hope it will be of help.

I am afraid in Telerik MAUI suite we do not have a markdown support. We have the following logged for the processing library https://feedback.telerik.com/document-processing/1496085-wordsprocessing-add-support-for-markdown-format If the feature was available, you could use it in the Telerik RichTextEditor for import export documents with different formats. 

Regards,
Didi
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