#Markdown

Markdown is a text formatting syntax inspired on plain text email. In the words of its creator, John Gruber :

The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions.

#Syntax Guide

#Strong and Emphasize

          
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          *emphasize*    **strong**
_emphasize_    __strong__

        

#Links

Inline links:

          
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          [link text](http://url.com/ "title")
[link text](http://url.com/)

# (GitHub-Flavored) Markdown Editor

Basic useful feature list:

 * Ctrl+S / Cmd+S to save the file
 * Ctrl+Shift+S / Cmd+Shift+S to choose to save as Markdown or HTML
 * Drag and drop a file into here to load it
 * File contents are saved in the URL so you can share files


I'm no good at writing sample / filler text, so go write something yourself.

Look, a list!

 * foo
 * bar
 * baz

And here's some code! :+1:

```javascript
$(function(){
  $('div').html('I am a div.');
});

        

#GitHub Flavored Markdown

Everything from markdown plus GFM features:

#URL autolinking

Underscores_are_allowed_between_words.

#Strikethrough text

GFM adds syntax to strikethrough text, which is missing from standard Markdown.

Mistaken text. works with other formatting

spans across lines

#Fenced code blocks (and syntax highlighting)

          
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          for (var i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
    console.log(items[i], i); // log them
}

        

#Task Lists

• Incomplete task list item
• Completed task list item

#A bit of GitHub spice

• SHA: be6a8cc1c1ecfe9489fb51e4869af15a13fc2cd2
• User@SHA ref: mojombo@be6a8cc1c1ecfe9489fb51e4869af15a13fc2cd2
• User/Project@SHA: mojombo/god@be6a8cc1c1ecfe9489fb51e4869af15a13fc2cd2
• #Num: #1
• User/#Num: mojombo#1
• User/Project#Num: mojombo/god#1

See http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/ .

#Markdown: Basics

• Main
• Basics
• Syntax
• License
• Dingus

#Getting the Gist of Markdown's Formatting Syntax

This page offers a brief overview of what it's like to use Markdown. The [syntax page] s provides complete, detailed documentation for every feature, but Markdown should be very easy to pick up simply by looking at a few examples of it in action. The examples on this page are written in a before/after style, showing example syntax and the HTML output produced by Markdown.

It's also helpful to simply try Markdown out; the [Dingus] d is a web application that allows you type your own Markdown-formatted text and translate it to XHTML.

Note: This document is itself written using Markdown; you can [see the source for it by adding '.text' to the URL] src .

#Paragraphs, Headers, Blockquotes

A paragraph is simply one or more consecutive lines of text, separated by one or more blank lines. (A blank line is any line that looks like a blank line -- a line containing nothing but spaces or tabs is considered blank.) Normal paragraphs should not be indented with spaces or tabs.

Markdown offers two styles of headers: Setext and atx. Setext-style headers for <h1> and <h2> are created by "underlining" with equal signs (=) and hyphens (-), respectively. To create an atx-style header, you put 1-6 hash marks (#) at the beginning of the line -- the number of hashes equals the resulting HTML header level.

Blockquotes are indicated using email-style '>' angle brackets.

Markdown:

          
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          A First Level Header
====================

A Second Level Header
---------------------

Now is the time for all good men to come to
the aid of their country. This is just a
regular paragraph.

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy
dog's back.

### Header 3

> This is a blockquote.
> 
> This is the second paragraph in the blockquote.
>
> ## This is an H2 in a blockquote

        

Output:

          
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          <h1>A First Level Header</h1>

<h2>A Second Level Header</h2>

<p>Now is the time for all good men to come to
the aid of their country. This is just a
regular paragraph.</p>

<p>The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy
dog's back.</p>

<h3>Header 3</h3>

<blockquote>
    <p>This is a blockquote.</p>
    
    <p>This is the second paragraph in the blockquote.</p>
    
    <h2>This is an H2 in a blockquote</h2>
</blockquote>

        

#Phrase Emphasis

Markdown uses asterisks and underscores to indicate spans of emphasis.

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          Some of these words *are emphasized*.
Some of these words _are emphasized also_.

Use two asterisks for **strong emphasis**.
Or, if you prefer, __use two underscores instead__.

        

Output:

          
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          <p>Some of these words <em>are emphasized</em>.
Some of these words <em>are emphasized also</em>.</p>

<p>Use two asterisks for <strong>strong emphasis</strong>.
Or, if you prefer, <strong>use two underscores instead</strong>.</p>

        

#Lists

Unordered (bulleted) lists use asterisks, pluses, and hyphens (*, +, and -) as list markers. These three markers are interchangable; this:

          
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          *%20%20%20Candy.%0A*%20%20%20Gum.%0A*%20%20%20Booze.

        

this:

          
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          +%20%20%20Candy.%0A+%20%20%20Gum.%0A+%20%20%20Booze.

        

and this:

          
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          -%20%20%20Candy.%0A-%20%20%20Gum.%0A-%20%20%20Booze.

        

all produce the same output:

          
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          <ul>
<li>Candy.</li>
<li>Gum.</li>
<li>Booze.</li>
</ul>

        

Ordered (numbered) lists use regular numbers, followed by periods, as list markers:

          
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          1.%20%20Red%0A2.%20%20Green%0A3.%20%20Blue

        

Output:

          
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          <ol>
<li>Red</li>
<li>Green</li>
<li>Blue</li>
</ol>

        

If you put blank lines between items, you'll get <p> tags for the list item text. You can create multi-paragraph list items by indenting the paragraphs by 4 spaces or 1 tab:

          
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          *   A list item.

    With multiple paragraphs.

*   Another item in the list.

        

Output:

          
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          <ul>
<li><p>A list item.</p>
<p>With multiple paragraphs.</p></li>
<li><p>Another item in the list.</p></li>
</ul>

        

#Links

Markdown supports two styles for creating links: inline and reference. With both styles, you use square brackets to delimit the text you want to turn into a link.

Inline-style links use parentheses immediately after the link text. For example:

          
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          This is an [example link](http://example.com/).

        

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          <p>This is an <a href="http://example.com/">
example link</a>.</p>

        

Optionally, you may include a title attribute in the parentheses:

          
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          This is an [example link](http://example.com/ "With a Title").

        

Output:

          
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          <p>This is an <a href="http://example.com/" title="With a Title">
example link</a>.</p>

        

Reference-style links allow you to refer to your links by names, which you define elsewhere in your document:

          
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          I get 10 times more traffic from [Google][1] than from
[Yahoo][2] or [MSN][3].

[1]: http://google.com/        "Google"
[2]: http://search.yahoo.com/  "Yahoo Search"
[3]: http://search.msn.com/    "MSN Search"

        

Output:

          
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          <p>I get 10 times more traffic from <a href="http://google.com/"
title="Google">Google</a> than from <a href="http://search.yahoo.com/"
title="Yahoo Search">Yahoo</a> or <a href="http://search.msn.com/"
title="MSN Search">MSN</a>.</p>

        

The title attribute is optional. Link names may contain letters, numbers and spaces, but are not case sensitive:

          
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          I start my morning with a cup of coffee and
[The New York Times][NY Times].

[ny times]: http://www.nytimes.com/

        

Output:

          
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          <p>I start my morning with a cup of coffee and
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/">The New York Times</a>.</p>

        

#Images

Image syntax is very much like link syntax.

Inline (titles are optional):

          
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Reference-style:

          
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[id]: /path/to/img.jpg "Title"

        

Both of the above examples produce the same output:

          
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#Code

In a regular paragraph, you can create code span by wrapping text in backtick quotes. Any ampersands (&) and angle brackets (< or >) will automatically be translated into HTML entities. This makes it easy to use Markdown to write about HTML example code:

          
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          I strongly recommend against using any `<blink>` tags.

I wish SmartyPants used named entities like `&mdash;`
instead of decimal-encoded entites like `&#8212;`.

        

Output:

          
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          <p>I strongly recommend against using any
<code>&lt;blink&gt;</code> tags.</p>

<p>I wish SmartyPants used named entities like
<code>&amp;mdash;</code> instead of decimal-encoded
entites like <code>&amp;#8212;</code>.</p>

        

To specify an entire block of pre-formatted code, indent every line of the block by 4 spaces or 1 tab. Just like with code spans, &, <, and > characters will be escaped automatically.

Markdown:

          
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          If you want your page to validate under XHTML 1.0 Strict,
you've got to put paragraph tags in your blockquotes:

    <blockquote>
        <p>For example.</p>
    </blockquote>

        

Output:

          
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          <p>If you want your page to validate under XHTML 1.0 Strict,
you've got to put paragraph tags in your blockquotes:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;blockquote&gt;
    &lt;p&gt;For example.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
</code></pre>

        

This is on GitHub so let me know if I've b0rked it somewhere.

Props to Mr. Doob and his code editor , from which the inspiration to this, and some handy implementation hints, came.

#Stuff used to make this:

• #markdown-it for Markdown parsing
• #CodeMirror for the awesome syntax-highlighted editor
• #highlight.js for syntax highlighting in output code blocks
• #js-deflate for gzipping of data to make it fit in URLs

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