Developers are now playing with lots of languages to make the web a better place to view. Markdown is the language, used by developers of various interest to make the github a better place.
History of Markdown
A plain-text-formatting syntax, created in 2004 by John Gruber with Aaron Swartz. Often used for formatting readme files, for writing messages in online discussion forums, and to create rich text using a plain text editor.
Pros
- Provides semantic meaning in a simple way
- Easy to learn ,implement and quick
- Readability
- Platform-agnostic
Let's learn Markdown and for those who know already, refresh!!!
Start with text
- Bold enclose text with double asterisk (**) on both sides
- italic enclose text with (_) on both sides
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strikethroughenclose text with double tilde (~~) on both sides
Let's see about #######headers
There are six headers ranging from header1 larger size to header6 smallest header. Each header is preceedded with equal number of hash/number sign(#)
Example:-
heading1
heading2
heading3
heading4
heading5
heading6
To show an image
Exclamation mark (!) followed by Any text related to image enclosed in square brackets [image-text] followed by image url enclosed in parenthesis (image-url.jpg)
Link is similar to images
Place a text to show enclosed in square brackets [view-text] followed by website url enclosed in parenthesis (web-url)
Block-quotes - Attention seeker :)
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