Headings

Headings

Headings from h1 through h6 are constructed with a # for each level:

# h1 Heading
## h2 Heading
### h3 Heading
#### h4 Heading
##### h5 Heading
###### h6 Heading

Renders to:

h1 Heading

h2 Heading

h3 Heading

h4 Heading

h5 Heading

h6 Heading

HTML:

Comments

Comments should be HTML compatible

Comment below should NOT be seen:

Horizontal Rules

The HTML <hr> element is for creating a "thematic break" between paragraph-level elements. In markdown, you can create a <hr> with any of the following:

  • ___: three consecutive underscores

  • ---: three consecutive dashes

  • ***: three consecutive asterisks

renders to:

Body Copy

Body copy written as normal, plain text will be wrapped with <p></p> tags in the rendered HTML.

So this body copy:

renders to this HTML:

Emphasis

Bold

For emphasizing a snippet of text with a heavier font-weight.

The following snippet of text is rendered as bold text.

renders to:

rendered as bold text

and this HTML

Italics

For emphasizing a snippet of text with italics.

The following snippet of text is rendered as italicized text.

renders to:

rendered as italicized text

and this HTML:

Strikethrough

In GFM (GitHub flavored Markdown) you can do strikethroughs.

Which renders to:

Strike through this text.

HTML:

Blockquotes

For quoting blocks of content from another source within your document.

Add > before any text you want to quote.

Renders to:

Fusion Drive combines a hard drive with a flash storage (solid-state drive) and presents it as a single logical volume with the space of both drives combined.

and this HTML:

Blockquotes can also be nested:

Renders to:

Donec massa lacus, ultricies a ullamcorper in, fermentum sed augue. Nunc augue augue, aliquam non hendrerit ac, commodo vel nisi.

Sed adipiscing elit vitae augue consectetur a gravida nunc vehicula. Donec auctor odio non est accumsan facilisis. Aliquam id turpis in dolor tincidunt mollis ac eu diam.

Mauris sit amet ligula egestas, feugiat metus tincidunt, luctus libero. Donec congue finibus tempor. Vestibulum aliquet sollicitudin erat, ut aliquet purus posuere luctus.

Lists

Unordered

A list of items in which the order of the items does not explicitly matter.

You may use any of the following symbols to denote bullets for each list item:

For example

Renders to:

  • Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

  • Consectetur adipiscing elit

  • Integer molestie lorem at massa

  • Facilisis in pretium nisl aliquet

  • Nulla volutpat aliquam velit

    • Phasellus iaculis neque

    • Purus sodales ultricies

    • Vestibulum laoreet porttitor sem

    • Ac tristique libero volutpat at

  • Faucibus porta lacus fringilla vel

  • Aenean sit amet erat nunc

  • Eget porttitor lorem

And this HTML

Ordered

A list of items in which the order of items does explicitly matter.

Renders to:

  1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

  2. Consectetur adipiscing elit

  3. Integer molestie lorem at massa

  4. Facilisis in pretium nisl aliquet

  5. Nulla volutpat aliquam velit

  6. Faucibus porta lacus fringilla vel

  7. Aenean sit amet erat nunc

  8. Eget porttitor lorem

And this HTML:

If you just use 1. for each number, Markdown will automatically number each item. For example:

Renders to:

  1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

  2. Consectetur adipiscing elit

  3. Integer molestie lorem at massa

  4. Facilisis in pretium nisl aliquet

  5. Nulla volutpat aliquam velit

  6. Faucibus porta lacus fringilla vel

  7. Aenean sit amet erat nunc

  8. Eget porttitor lorem

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