Markdown: Simple Introduction

Markdown is a simple formatting system that you can use to write, edit, and share content. In this guide, we’ll go over the basics of using markdown in Word documents. We’ll also cover some tips for using it with other tools like CMSs and text editors.

Introduction

Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to write content for the web. It’s simple, easy to learn and read, and converts well into HTML.

Markdown was created by John Gruber as a way of writing plain text documents on his website in an easy-to-read format that could be converted into HTML with minimal effort. Since then it has been adopted by many other sites as well as tools like GitHub which makes it possible for users to edit their posts directly from within the app itself (rather than having them copy-pasted).

Heading

Markdown is a simple markup language that you can use to format your text. It’s similar to HTML, but it has a few differences:

• You don’t need to worry about tags or quotes around links and images; they’re automatically recognized by the browser.
• Paragraphs are separated by blank lines (called “soft returns”) instead of newline characters like in HTML. This means that every paragraph will have its line break regardless of how many soft returns occur between them; if you want all paragraphs on the same line, use two consecutive backticks (“``”).

Bold/Italics

Bold and italic text are easy to add with markdown. To make the text bold, surround it with asterisks. To make text italic, surround it with underscores. To make text bold and italic, use double asterisks or underscores:

```markdown```

or ```bold_italic_ajax```

Lists

Markdown allows you to create lists. A list item is a separate piece of text that can be preceded by any number of spaces, and it ends with one or more newline characters (the usual way to signal the end of an HTML block).

List items are separated from each other by blank lines:

• *List item one* *List item two* *List item three*, etc.

If you want your list items numbered automatically, just put them in sequence like this: *1.*; for example, if we wanted our bulleted lists numbered as 1 through 10 (which would be basically like saying “one” through “ten”), we could use this markup: > # List 1 >

Links and Images

Links and images are the two most common elements of Markdown. You can add links with the link syntax, which contains a title and description:

```

This is my link

If you want to add an image to your text, there are several ways that you can do so:

• Using tags (or just opening parentheses within them) will insert an image directly into your markdown file without requiring any extra HTML markup or JavaScript files. For example:

Tables

Markdown tables are created using the same basic syntax as regular text. The first row of a table must contain the header and may optionally include several optional rows before it. Each subsequent row of data should start with an opening tag, followed by that data in its column within paragraphs (indented one level).

To create a table in HTML:

```HTML

First Column ```

Blockquotes

To create a blockquote, use the > symbol.

Blockquotes are automatically indented. You can put code blocks in blockquotes. And you can quote more than one paragraph!

Learn more about markdown at dillinger.io

You can learn more about markdown at dillinger.io, where they have an interactive editor that you can use to practice your markdown skills. They also have a course for beginners and one for advanced users!

Conclusion

Markdown is a simple way to create structured content. It was created by John Gruber in the early 2000s and it’s been used in many different places since then.

It’s especially useful for creating books, blogs, websites and more.

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