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Text Formatting

Text formatting codes are used to create fancy colorized text, they are prefixed with a grave symbol `. After using a formatting code such as `o (italic), it has to be reset, otherwise it will continue until the end of the text.

info

Some older maps may use the deprecated § section symbol to specify formatting codes. This symbol should be avoided in favor of the ` grave symbol wherever possible for all new maps.

Examples

<item name="`iFrozen `rWater" material="snowball"/>
<line>This is one of three of `9Blue Team`r's victory monuments.</line>
<item name="`1Blue `4Red `rNone" material="book"/>

Chat Colors

IDColor NameIDColor Name
BLACKDARK_GRAY
DARK_BLUEBLUE
DARK_GREENGREEN
DARK_AQUAAQUA
DARK_REDRED
DARK_PURPLELIGHT_PURPLE
GOLDYELLOW
GRAYWHITE

Text Styles

IDFunction
MAGIC
BOLD
STRIKETHROUGH
UNDERLINE
ITALIC
RESET

The magic formatter will convert all the text after it into a scrambled, constantly changing mess of letters.

note

Reset (`r) will clear all previous color and text styles after a specified length in a text line.

To have a line all italic and one word red you will have to to do the following.

<!-- Everything is italic and the word "italic" is also red -->
<line>`oThis is an `citalic `r`otext with a single red word.</line>

Copied from: bukkit docs - Chat Color