What is Markdown? | Basic Markdown CheatSheet

All-in-One Guide for Understanding the Markdown Clearly


What is Markdown?

What is Markdown?

Markdown is the markup language for user content at GitHub and allows users at all skill levels to write plain text documents, which get rendered in HTML.

Extension of Markdown File

The extension of the Markdown file is .md

Markdown

What is the use of Markdown?

Markdown is simply a file extension used to document your code using markdown language and is the default documentation option in most code repositories like GitHub or GitLab.
In GitHub, a markdown file is created with the name README.md

Markdown Cheatsheet

The Basic Syntax Of Markdown Is Given Blow

Heading

To create a heading, add one to six Hash(#) symbols before the heading text. The number of # used determines the size of the heading.

One hash(#) means the biggest heading and Six hashes means Smallest Heading

# Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

Heading 4

Heading 5

Heading 6

List

For List, just write the number followed by text, and for sub-list just give an indented space and repeat

1. List

1. List
   1. Sub-List
   2. Sub-List

Bold and Italics

**Bold** // makes text bold *Italics* or _Italics_ // makes text italics

Strikethrough

To create strike-through text, surround the text with double tildes.

Rs. 999 99 // this will cut 999 with a single line

Links

To embed any link, write the Title in the square bracket and the link in the parenthesis

[Title](link address )

Images

To place an image start with an exclamation mark followed by an alternate text in a square bracket and image hosted URL or address in parenthesis


Quoting text

You can quote text with a >.

> This is a quote

Code Snippet

It starts with triple back ticks(“`) and ends with the same
There are a couple of ways to escape triple tick code blocks:

• Using 4 backticks) instead of 3 backticks
• Using ~~~(3 tildes) instead of “`(3 backticks)
• You can combine the two for yet another level of meta

Table

A table is made using pipes and hyphens.

Now that you have learned about the markdown language, let’s check one readme profile made just by using these formatting & Syntax.

Demo Of Marckdow In Github as README.md

https://github.com/Jainil2003/Jainil2003/blob/b9c82d8d7eae588ba37c9bc4f984442b78129216/README.md


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