Markdown syntax

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Syntax

Several tools like static page generators and commenting platforms allow to use Markdown to write content. Learn the Markdown syntax in this tutorial.

Introduction

Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. File format suffix is “.md” or “.markdown”. There are several Markdown “flavours” but the syntax is almost identical.

Syntax

• *italic*: italic.
• _italic_: italic.
• **bold**: bold.
• __bold__: bold.
• ***bold and italic***: bold and italic.
• > Blockquote:

Blockquote

• # Heading 1, ## Heading 2, etc.

• ---: Horizontal rule.

• [Link](https://rs1.es): Link.

• <https://rs1.es>: https://rs1.es.

• ![Evince](https://rs1.es/evince-1.jpg): insert an image.

  • You can add a “title” property: ![Evince](https://rs1.es/evince-1.jpg "Evince")

  

• `code line`: code line.

• ```

  code block with

  several lines

  ```

  code block with
  several lines

• 1. Ordered list.
• - Unordered list.
• \: Escape characters.
• Tables:

| ID | Name    |
|----|---------|
| 1  | Ricardo |
| 2  | Jose    |
| 3  | Maria   |

ID	Name
1	Ricardo
2	Jose
3	Maria

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