# Shareable component: markdown for strings?

**URL:** <https://community.appfarm.io/t/shareable-component-markdown-for-strings/1738>\
**Category:** Ask the community\
**Created:** [March 19, 2025, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.appfarm.io/t/shareable-component-markdown-for-strings/1738 "2025-03-19T13:18:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joanna](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.appfarm.io/joanna/32/122_2.png) [@Joanna](https://community.appfarm.io/u/Joanna)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.appfarm.io/t/shareable-component-markdown-for-strings/1738/1 "2025-03-19T13:18:02Z")

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Hi! Are there any workarounds available for using markdown for string values in component params of a shareable component? In my current use case, I’m primarily interested in line breaks, but the full markdown functionality would be great.

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**Author:** ![rhys](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.appfarm.io/rhys/32/1379_2.png) [@rhys](https://community.appfarm.io/u/rhys)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 9:20am UTC](https://community.appfarm.io/t/shareable-component-markdown-for-strings/1738/2 "2025-03-25T09:20:40Z")

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Hi!

I haven’t found a workaround that works for “\< br \>” line breaks, but I have found that using a function string param works when using “\n” works when the Enable Markdown checkbox is enabled on the Text component. Using \* and \*\* to emphasize bold and italic text also works in both cases, for examples of other markdown functionality that works.

How it looks in the client:

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/appfarm/original/2X/e/e5a242bbfc119188a416369b73def0b3cfb6217e.png)

How it looks in Create:

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/appfarm/original/2X/6/6e474fe406bfb799bfce4dc10701b2e8ae2ee071.png)

The function param:  
 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/appfarm/original/2X/b/b6c238a32639cbdf21b7fab9e16b40330bb85d14.png)

This approach unfortunately does not work when working with data which has been saved from before - it seems to only work for “\n” characters which are written directly as part of a function.

Rhys

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**Author:** ![Joanna](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.appfarm.io/joanna/32/122_2.png) [@Joanna](https://community.appfarm.io/u/Joanna)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.appfarm.io/t/shareable-component-markdown-for-strings/1738/3 "2025-03-25T12:14:26Z")

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Hi @rhys! I ended up using Rich text, but good find, I’ll keep it in mind for the future 😊