Markdown Cheat Sheet / Guide
I am a UI developer who is passionate about learning coding and creating the beautiful websites. I am not perfect and make lots mistake but try to learn with them as much as I can.
What is markdown ?
Markdown is lightweight markup language with a plain text formatting syntax which can be converted into HTML/XML and other formats. It's main purpose is readability and ease of use.
Why do we use markdown language ?
It is widely used for readme files and documentation. You can find Github widely using it. We create Readme.md file while pushing our code to repository. It uses ".md" as file extension. It is also used for forum & blog posts.
Headings in markdown ?
We use "#" sign with a space to write the heading. We have total 6 type of headings, see the below image to understand better
How to make the text Italic ?
We use the " * " and "_" symbol to make the text italic. We wrap the text inside the " * '' and "_ " to change the text to italic example
How to make the text Bold ?
We wrap our text inside the "**" to make it look bold. We can also use "__" . see the below example
Strikethrough We use "~~"(tilde) symbol to strikethrough our content. See the below example.
Horizontal Rule
We use "---" and "___" to draw the horizontal line. Check the below example
Blockquote
See the Below example
Links
Unordered List with nested
Ordered List with nested
Image
Code blocks
Programming language specific Code blocks
Table
Task List
