In November 2019, Slack introduced a new WYSIWYG interface, as shown below. This feature is enabled for all users by default. The most obvious change is the addition of formatting buttons in the interface controls, but there’s also a live editor that hides the Markdown formatting after you type it. This is probably a coincidence, but after Mattermost announced markdown support last week, Slack announced the same feature yesterday. For app-published text, there is a handy date syntax available to format a Unix timestamp, and Slack will handle the timezone localization for you. The
Slack Format Markdown Tool
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How do you remove Slack formatting toolbar?
I rarely add formatting to messages, and would rather the chat box in Slack only be a chat box like in Messenger (and like it was before). Instead now it's double as large and has formatting options I'll never use. How can you turn off Slack's formatting options?
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What do you think of Slack's new WYSIWYG editor?Answer
There's an option to turn it off - Preferences > Advanced > Input Options and toggle 'Format messages with markup'.
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Choose how you'd like to format messages by going to Preferences > Advanced > Input Options
We recently released a WYSIWYG editor to help you format messages in Slack. To the users who preferred the text markdown from before, we heard you. 🙇
Starting today, you can choose how you’d like to format messages by going to Preferences > Advanced > Input Options. #changelog
There are several ways to disable Slack's rich text editor
If you just want to hide the 'kitchen sink' formatting toolbar, you can disable it as @maguay described below.
If you want to actually move back to the old Markdown-style formatting options, here's how you can do it:
Chrome
If you use Slack in Chrome, this extension will revert the text formatting for you.
Firefox
If you use Slack in Firefox, this extension will revert the text formatting for you.
Desktop
Disabling the new text editor in the desktop app is a bit trickier but totally doable if you're willing to wade into some code. @kfahy outlined these instructions on Github (source):
1) Open the slack app in Developer mode
- On Mac OS X: export SLACKDEVELOPERMENU=true && open -a /Applications/Slack.app
- On Windows in a Powershell window (per user install): $env:SLACKDEVELOPERMENU='true'; & '$($env:LOCALAPPDATA)Slackslack.exe'
- On Windows in a Powershell window (machine wide install): $env:SLACKDEVELOPERMENU='true'; & '$($Env:ProgramFiles)Slack Deploymentslack.exe'
- On Ubuntu with Gnome (using Slack launcher):edit /usr/share/applications/slack.desktopreplace Exec=/usr/bin/slack %U with Exec=env SLACKDEVELOPERMENU=true /usr/bin/slack %U
- On other OS's: ensure the SLACKDEVELOPERMENU environment variable is set to true before opening the Slack app.
2) Right-click in the app and Inspect element
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3) Copy the contents of index.js
4) Paste into the Console tab
5) Repeat each time you reload slack or switch to a team for the first time
Click the Aa button in the lower right of Slack's chat box
You can't fully disable Slack's formatting options, but you can hide the Slack formatting toolbar. Click the Aa button in the lower right of Slack's chat box, and Slack will hide the toolbar. You can still use keyboard shortcuts to add formatting, or select text to see a hover toolbar with formatting options, but that'll at least save space and keep Slack looking a bit more like it used to.
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