HTML markup

In certain channels, you can use HTML markup to format the text in bot replies: for example, to emphasize some words a message using italics or render an enumeration as a list.

HTML markup is supported in the following channels:

If the bot sends a message with HTML markup in some other channel, the user will receive a plain text message without any formatting.

How to use

There are several ways you can use HTML in the script:

The a reaction tag. Specify two parameters after the tag: htmlEnabled = true and html, containing the text with markup:
```
 a: This is an article about HTML. || tts = "This is an article about <b>HTML</b>."
```

Replies with the text type. In the reply object, set the markup property to html and pass the text with markup in the text property:

script:
    $response.replies = $response.replies || [];
    $response.replies.push({
        "type": "text",
        "text": "HTML is a <i>hypertext</i> markup language for viewing web pages in a browser.",
        "markup": "html"
    });

The $reactions.answer method. The method argument should be an object with the html property containing the text with markup:

script:
    $reactions.answer({
        "value": "It was invented by a Britich computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee.",
        "tts": "It was invented by <strike>an American</strike> a Britich computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee."
    });

Channel restrictions

All channels except the Chat API support a limited set of HTML tags.

Tag	Chat widget	Telegram
`<a>` (link)	Yes	Yes
`<b>` (bold text)	Yes	Yes
`<i>` (italic text)	Yes	Yes
`<ol>` (numbered list)	Yes	No
`<pre>` (preformatted text)	Yes	Yes
`<strike>` (strikethrough text)	Yes	Yes
`<u>` (underline text)	Yes	Yes
`<ul>` (bulleted list)	Yes	No