Feature support

This page lists which features the library implements, organized by component and by how each feature is enabled.

• The React Native column is the react-native-enriched-markdown package on iOS and Android. macOS runs the same iOS code with a few documented gaps - see macOS support.
• The iOS column is the standalone Swift package (0.4.0), and the Android column is the standalone Android library (0.3.0). Both parse through the same C++ core as the React Native package, but neither has a flavor switch or an md4cFlags prop - the per-section notes name their native switches. They ship EnrichedMarkdownText only, so they do not appear in the editor tables. See iOS and Android installation.
• The Web column is the same package's web build, a plain React renderer that emits semantic HTML. In the editor tables it is the experimental web editor. See the Web support and Web editor guides.

Yes means the feature renders with no extra work beyond the switch named in the section heading. No means it does not render on that target; the per-feature notes say what you get instead.

For the syntax itself see Core concepts; for per-element detail and style properties see the Element structure reference for React Native, iOS or Android. For what is missing and what is being worked on, see the Roadmap.

EnrichedMarkdownText

The display component - parses a Markdown string and renders it.

CommonMark

Available by default, no configuration required.

Feature	React Native	iOS	Android	Web
Headings	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Paragraphs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Bold / italic	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Inline code	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Links	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Lists (ordered / unordered)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Blockquotes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Code blocks	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Thematic break	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Images	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

GitHub Flavored Markdown

In React Native, enabled with flavor="github" - see Markdown flavors. The standalone iOS and Android SDKs have no flavor switch: tables, task lists and strikethrough are always on there.

Feature	React Native	iOS	Android	Web
Tables	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Task lists	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Strikethrough	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Admonitions (> [!NOTE])	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Videos (<video src="url" />)	Yes	No	No	Yes

On iOS and Android, admonitions are a parsing switch, off by default: MarkdownParsingOptions(admonitions: true) on iOS and MarkdownOptions(admonitions = true) on Android - see iOS parser extensions and Android parser extensions. On Android, a table nested inside a list item or blockquote is not rendered.

warning

Neither standalone SDK renders videos. iOS drops the <video> block; on Android a <video> block currently prevents the whole document from rendering, so do not feed one to the Android EnrichedMarkdownText.

Two things commonly filed under GFM are not gated by the flavor:

• Bare-URL autolinks are always parsed in React Native, in both flavors, and on web. On iOS and Android they are the permissiveAutolinks parsing switch, on by default.
• Videos are promoted from <video> HTML regardless of flavor, so flavor="commonmark" parses them too. On web there is no flavor to set and no build flag to enable: the tag renders in the browser's own <video> player.

note

The web renderer has no flavor prop - tables, task lists, strikethrough and bare-URL autolinking are compiled into the WebAssembly build unconditionally and are always on. Admonitions are different: on web they are a runtime md4cFlags.admonitions flag, on by default and switchable like the inline extensions below.

Inline extensions

Toggled independently, not by the flavor, and most of them off by default:

• React Native and web - the md4cFlags prop.
• iOS - MarkdownParsingOptions(...), passed as the view's options: argument. See Parser extensions.
• Android - MarkdownOptions(...), passed as the options parameter. See Parser extensions.

Two rows are not parsing switches on any target: strikethrough color is a style property (markdownStyle.strikethrough.color in React Native, the Strikethrough() theme element on iOS, strikethrough { color } on Android), and spoilers are parsed unconditionally - what you configure is the separate spoiler overlay.

Feature	React Native	iOS	Android	Web
Underline (_text_)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Strikethrough color	Yes (iOS only)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Superscript (^text^)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Subscript (~text~)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Highlight (==text==)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Spoilers (||text||)	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

In the React Native package on Android a strikethrough always uses the text color; markdownStyle.strikethrough.color is honored on iOS and on web. The standalone Android SDK does honor strikethrough { color }.

danger

Spoilers are not just unstyled on web - the node and the text inside it are dropped, so a ||secret|| b renders as a b. Do not put content behind a spoiler if the same Markdown is rendered on web. See Web support.

Advanced features

Each has its own page - under Rich text formatting, or under the React Native Guides when the feature exists only in the React Native package.

Feature	React Native	iOS	Android	Web	Learn more
LaTeX math	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	LaTeX math
Mentions	Yes	No	No	Yes	Mentions
Code-block highlighting	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Code-block highlighting
Markdown streaming	Yes	No	No	No	Markdown streaming
Link pills	Yes	No	No	No	Link pills
Link menus	Yes	No	No	No	Link menus

LaTeX math on web needs the optional katex peer dependency; without it the formula falls back to its raw $...$ source. Code-block highlighting on web renders a plain, uncolored <pre><code>. The two streaming props are stripped on web. Link pills are drawn by the native text stack, so on web those links render as ordinary links with the variant's colors; custom link menus are an iOS 17+ feature, and a long press on web is the contextmenu event delivered to onLinkLongPress.

On the standalone SDKs, the advanced features that render are optional add-ons:

• LaTeX math - on iOS, add the optional EnrichedMarkdownLaTeX product and apply .markdownLaTeX() (see iOS LaTeX math); on Android, add the optional com.swmansion.enriched.markdown:math artifact and register LatexMathPlugin, which turns on parsing and rendering together (see Android LaTeX math).
• Code-block highlighting - on iOS, add the optional EnrichedMarkdownSyntaxHighlighting product and apply .markdownSyntaxHighlighting() (see Syntax highlighting); on Android, add the optional com.swmansion.enriched.markdown:code-highlight artifact and register CodeHighlightPlugin (see Android code highlighting).
• Mentions - there is no mention support in either SDK, but mention links written as ordinary Markdown links ([display](url)) still render and are tappable like any other link.

EnrichedMarkdownTextInput

The editor - produces a Markdown string as the user types.

important

The editor runs on iOS, Android and macOS. Its web build is ExperimentalExperimental: this feature is still taking shape and may get breaking changes, including in nightly releases. and covers less: no Markdown shortcuts, link or mention commands, auto-link detection or markdownStyle.linkVariants. See Web editor.

The editor is a flat inline-formatting surface: it supports inline styles plus block-level headings and lists, but not the container blocks the renderer handles. Code blocks, tables, and blockquotes are intentionally unsupported in the input - for those, render with EnrichedMarkdownText.

CommonMark

Feature	React Native	Web
Headings	Yes	Yes
Bold / italic	Yes	Yes
Links	Yes	Partial
Lists (ordered / unordered)	Yes	Yes
Inline code	No	No
Blockquotes	No	No
Code blocks	No	No

On web, links that arrive in the Markdown are kept and rendered, but there are no link commands to create or edit one.

GitHub Flavored Markdown

Feature	React Native	Web
Strikethrough	Yes	Yes
Tables	No	No
Task lists	No	No

Inline extensions

Toggled through the editor's toggle* ref methods.

Feature	React Native	Web
Underline	Yes	Yes
Spoiler (||text||)	Yes	Yes
Superscript / subscript	No	No
Highlight	No	No

Advanced features

Feature	React Native	Web	Learn more
Mentions	Yes	No	Mentions

Mentions are inserted as ordinary Markdown links ([display](url)) and styled per URL pattern via linkVariants - there is no dedicated mention token.