Textile Format Guide

About Textile Format

Textile is a lightweight markup language originally developed by Dean Allen in 2002. It provides a simple, human-readable syntax for creating formatted text that can be easily converted to HTML and other formats. Textile uses intuitive notation for common formatting tasks: asterisks for bold (*bold*), underscores for italic (_italic_), and simple characters for headings (h1., h2., etc.).

Textile is widely used in content management systems and project management tools, most notably Redmine, Trac, and some versions of Basecamp. It offers a balance between readability in its raw form and powerful formatting capabilities when rendered. Unlike Markdown, Textile supports more advanced features like inline styles, CSS classes, and complex table formatting natively.

Available Conversions

Textile Format Features

• Readable Syntax: Human-friendly markup that is easy to read and write
• Rich Formatting: Bold, italic, strikethrough, superscript, subscript
• Table Support: Native table formatting with alignment and spanning
• CSS Integration: Inline styles and CSS classes directly in markup
• Block Elements: Headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, code blocks
• Lists: Ordered and unordered lists with nesting support
• Links and Images: Simple syntax for hyperlinks and embedded images

Common Uses

• Redmine: Default markup language for Redmine project management
• Content Management: Used in CMS platforms for content authoring
• Documentation: Writing technical documentation and guides
• Blog Posts: Creating formatted blog content with simple syntax
• Issue Tracking: Formatting descriptions and comments in issue trackers
• Wiki Pages: Creating wiki-style content with rich formatting
• Web Publishing: Generating HTML content from plain text source