Formatting Toolbar

MarkNode provides two toolbars for formatting your text: a floating toolbar that appears on selection, and a main toolbar at the top of the editor.

Floating Toolbar

When you select text in the editor, a floating toolbar appears just above the selection. It gives you one-click access to the most common inline formatting options without leaving the keyboard home row area.

The floating toolbar includes:

• Bold — wraps the selection in **double asterisks**
• Italic — wraps the selection in *single asterisks*. You can also toggle italic with Cmd+I (macOS) or Ctrl+I (Windows/Linux)
• Strikethrough — wraps the selection in ~~tildes~~
• Inline code — wraps the selection in backticks
• Quote — turns the selected lines into a block quote

Clicking elsewhere clears the selection and dismisses the toolbar without making changes.

Main Toolbar

The main toolbar runs along the top of the editor panel. It provides one-click access to inline and block formatting for the current selection or line.

The buttons, left to right, are:

• Bold, Italic, Strikethrough, Inline code, and Quote — the same inline formatting as the floating toolbar
• Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3 — turn the current line into a heading at that level
• Bullet list, Ordered list, Task list — turn the current lines into a list of that type
• Code block — inserts a fenced code block at the cursor
• Table — inserts a starter table template

Keyboard Shortcuts for Formatting

The most frequently used formatting actions have keyboard shortcuts:

Formatting is applied as Markdown syntax in the source, so it is always visible and editable in the raw text. There is no hidden markup — what you see in the editor is what is stored in the file.