Markdown Markup Language – Quick Tutorial

Markdown is a simple, useful markup language for text. It has very simple format annotations. The editor at stackoverflow.com uses Markdown. Markdown requires less meta characters to do the formatting and the meta data does not confuse the original text, which is better than HTML.

Headings of different levels

Heading should start with # and followed by a space at the begining of each heading title.

# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading 3
#### Heading 4
##### Heading 5

This translates to HTML tags H1 to H5. You can visualize it at this page

Text Links

The syntax for Hyper Links in Markdown is

[Text](Link)

For example [UploadBETA](https://uploadbeta.com) becomes UPLOADBETA. It is worth mentioning that Markdown does not support target=_blank, and alt attributes for the hyper links.

If you want to insert a picture, you just have to add the exclamation mark at the front, e.g.

![Image ALT](Image Address)

For example 

becomes: Here.

The ALT can be specified inside the square brackets as shown above.

Another type of links can be created in the following format:

[Link Text][Reference]
[Reference]: URL

For example, (if it is a image, you add the exclamation mark as well).

![NSFW][Beauties]
[Beauties]: https://uploadbeta.com/share-image/2eb

Becomes Here:

Font Types: Bold, Italics, Strike

**Bold**
*Italics* underscores work fine _Italics_
~~Strike~~

**_Bold and Italics_**

引用

> Quoted paragraph starts with > this wraps the text in the HTML tag Blockquote

List

1. List1
 - Sub List
2. List2
 - Sub List
3. List3
 1. Sub List
 2. Sub List

Becomes

1. List1
   • Sub List
2. List2
   • Sub List
3. List3
   1. Sub List
   2. Sub List

You can also use * and a space to get the list as well:

* Milk
* Egg
* Fish
* Butter

Becomes:

• Mik
• Egg
• Fish
• Butter

Hard Breaks

1
2
3

is rendered as 1 2 3
If you want a hard break, you just need to add an extra empty line:

1

2

3

Becomes

1
2
3

You can add > to quote multiple paragraphs

> Quote Paragraph 1

> Quote Paragraph 2

Conclusion

Markdown is simple. It can be easily rendered to PDF or HTML. You can edit the article easily using your smart phones…

A what-you-see-is-what-you-get online Markdown editor/formatter is provided here : https://helloacm.com/markdown/ with API available = https://helloacm.com/api/markdown/?s=Mark+Down

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