Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber and Aaron Swartz created Markdown in 2004 as a markup language that is appealing to human readers in its source code form.
This article is made for a quick help for when you (and I) need to use markdown for a project.
Headers
Also H1 and H2 can be written like this
Text styles
Paragraphs
You can end a paragraph with two or more spaces and then begin a new paragraph. Like this:
Blockquotes
are done
Like this:
Lists
Unordered lists can be made in this ways
Ordered lists can be made in this way
You can also make sublists like this
You can make task lists with checkboxes like this
Code Blocks
To make a code block (which uses the element in HTML) by indenting a line with four spaces or a tab. You can also re-tab (or add an additional four spaces) for indentation inside your code. Like this:
Horizontal Rule
Horizontal rules (
) are easily added with three or more asterisks or hyphens, with or without spaces.
Links
Put the text to display in hard brackets [] followed by the url in parentheses (). You can also add a link title using quotes inside the parentheses. Relative paths work too.
Markdown also supports reference style links.
Images
Images are done the same way as links but with an exclamation point in front!
Tables
To make tables using markdown you can do it pretty easily. And has 2 different ways.
Footnote
Here is how to make footnotes.
Miscellany
Here's some stuff I don't use very often but some people may need it.
Auto links for emails
Escaping characters
Keyboard keys
That's it , I know there are more things but honestly I haven't used anything more than this. If you have anything you want me to add please comment and I will edit this.
Hope this helps,
Stay safe,
~Jovan
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