Twitch panels
twitch. tv popular OTT platform for streaming users’ video, Markdown is used to customize user panels in the channel. twitch supports only limited markdown tags support, HTML is not supported. please see the supported tags twitch tags
Important points
- Twitch has limited support for markdown
- place two spaces after the end of the line for a line break or
- please enter the key at the end of the line
Markdown is used in Twitch for creating the following things.
twitch panel
customize descriptions for sharing on the Twitch channel page
chat pages
These are free to use for editors and contain image panels to link to their social media profiles.
These are mainly used to make clickable image links as well as user information. It also includes information about video stream.
You can customize the panels using the on/off option from the edit panels
Twitch panels are not animated.
How to add panels on Twitch?
Panels are nothing but an image pointing to your custom URL
- Open the Channel page
- In the video screen, you can find for on /off UI Switch for the panel and make it on
- You can add the following images and add a link to it
- panel title
- image
- image link
- description
Finally, Save the panel to take effect.
Twitch panel size and
images in the Twitch panel of maximum size under 3.9MB The maximum width supported is 320px and the maximum height is 300px.
The recommended and best panel size is 320px X 160PX
Twitch panel markdown sample
# Heading
## Subheading
**BOLD STRING**
*ITALIC CONTENT*
[w3schools](https://www.w3schools.io)
> This is a quote example
>> Subquote example
example for
line break
paragraph line 2
paragraph line 3
****
Nested List example
Kappa
*****
******
* item 1
* Item 2
- Item 3
- Item 4
+ item 5
+ item 5
Output is
Twitch markdown cheat sheet
Following markdown features are supported in Twitch and panels
Feature | Description | Support |
---|---|---|
Headings | all heading tags are supported | supported |
list | Supported ordered and unordered list | supported |
Tables | Tables | Not supported |
Comments | comments are ignored by parsers. | Nt supported |
Links | Links | supported |
Images | Images | Not supported |
blockquotes | blockquotes | |
Blockquotes | These can be placed in panels -nested panels are also supported | supported |