Prosebox uses Markdown (in addition to a limited subset of HTML for security reasons) to allow users to do formatting in entries. Keep in mind that there is a Preview button so you can experiment very easily with this stuff!

OK, so let's say you want to italicize some text. You can do it like so:

Oh no you *didn't*!

Oh no you didn't!

And for bold:

I can't believe it, **great googly moogly**!!!

I can't believe it, great googly moogly!!

Here's a big heading:

Vote for simple mind
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Vote for simple mind

A smaller heading:

Rock on
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Rock on

A bulleted list:

* Chicken
* Eggs
* Toast

• Chicken
• Eggs
• Toast

I believe pluses and dashed also work:

- Coolness
- Hotness

• Coolness
• Hotness

And:

+ Zoot
+ Suit

• Zoot
• Suit

URLs are detected automatically and converted into links:

http://www.cnn.com

http://www.cnn.com

And you can add a picture like so:

![Spider Monkey](http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/007/cache/spider-monkey_719_600x450.jpg)

And you should be off to a pretty good start!