Markdown

Basics

Paragraphs

Paragraph are separated by blank lines: Paragrah1 Paragraph2

Headers

# H1 ## H2 ### H3 #### H4 ##### H5 ###### H6 or H1 ====== H2 ------

Text Elements

*text* or _text_

Italic: text

**text** or __text__

Bold: text

~~text~~

Strikethrough: text

--- (three or more)

Horizontal line

\*literal asterisks\*

Use backslash to escape Markdown commands

Lists

Unordered lists

* Red * Green * Blue or + Red + Green + Blue or - Red - Green - Blue

Ordered lists

1. Bird 2. McHale 3. Parish or (for the lazy) 1. Bird 1. McHale 1. Parish

Ordered lists

Must be indented by a tab or four spaces: - Colour - Red - Blue - Animal - Dog - Cat

Links

Inline:

• [Example with title](http://example.com/ "Optional Title")
• [Example link](http://example.net/)

Reference:

• Link: This is [an example] [id] referencence-style link.
• Reference: [id]: http://example.com/ "Optional Title Here"

Implicit reference:

• Link: [Google][]
• Reference: [Google]: http://google.com/

Automatic link:

• <http://example.com/>
• <address@example.com/>

Blocks

Quotes

>This is a blockquote with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, > consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. > Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus. > > Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. Suspendisse > id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing. or > This is a blockquote with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus. > Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. Suspendisse id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing.

Code

This is a normal paragraph: This is a code block.

Images

Inline:

• ![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg)
• ![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg "Optional title")

Reference:

• Link: ![Alt text][id]
• Reference: [id]: url/to/image "Optional title attribute"

More Information

• Full description: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
• Online converter: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/dingus