Description styling

In ArcGIS Urban, you can style the text of the following descriptions:

• Indicator description
• Project description
• Plan description
• Zoning and land-use type description
• Overlay boundary description

You can style descriptions with markdown. Markdown is a markup language that is used to format text. ArcGIS Urban supports the following markdown syntax elements:

• Paragraphs
• Bold and italic text
• Link
• Unordered list
• Ordered list
• Table

Paragraphs

To create paragraphs, separate text blocks with a blank line.

Example

This is the first paragraph.

This is the second paragraph.

Bold and italic text

You can emphasize a single word or a phrase the following way:

• Bold—Add two asterisks before and after the text (**).
• Italic—Add an underscore before and after the text (_).
• Bold and italic—Add three asterisks before and after the text (***).

Example

**This text is bold.**

_This text is italicized._

***This text is both bold and italicized.***

Link

To create a link, enclose the link text in square brackets [ ] and append the URL enclosed in round brackets ( ).

Example

[Link text](https://www.esri.com/)

Unordered list

To create an unordered list, begin each item of the list with a dash (-). To add a nested list, indent the sublist by four spaces.

Example

- First item
- Second item
- Third item
    - Indented item
    - Indented item
- Fourth item

Ordered list

To create an ordered list, begin each item of the list with a number followed by a period. To add a nested list, indent the sublist by four spaces.

Example

1. First item
2. Second item
3. Third item
    1. Indented item
    2. Indented item
4. Fourth item

Table

To create a table, add a new line for each row and separate columns with pipes (|). Add three or more dashes (---) in each column of the second line to separate the headers from the content.

Example

| First Header  | Second Header |
| ------------- | ------------- |
| Content cell  | Content cell  |
| Content cell  | Content cell  |

You can align the content per column by adjusting the second row of the table definition as follows:

• Align right—Add a colon to the left of the dashes (:---).
• Align center—Enclose the dashes with colons (:---:).
• Align right—Add a colon to the right of the dashes (---:).

Example

| Left    | Center  | Right   |
| :---    |  :---:  |    ---: |
| Content | Content | Content |
| Content | Content | Content |