Markdown Quick Reference ======================== This guide is a very brief overview, with examples, of the syntax that [Markdown] supports. It is itself written in Markdown and you can copy the samples over to the left-hand pane for experimentation. It's shown as *text* and not *rendered HTML*. [Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ Simple Text Formatting ====================== First thing is first. You can use *stars* or _underscores_ for italics. **Double stars** and __double underscores__ do bold. ***Three together*** do ___both___. Paragraphs are pretty easy too. Just have a blank line between chunks of text. > This chunk of text is in a block quote. Its multiple lines will all be > indended a bit from the rest of the text. > > > Multiple levels of block quotes also work. Sometimes you want to include some code, such as when you are explaining how `
` tag and *won't* be shown
as preformatted text.
You can keep adding more and more paragraphs to a single
list item by adding the traditional blank line and then keep
on indenting the paragraphs with four spaces. You really need
to only indent the first line, but that looks ugly.
- Lists support blockquotes
> Just like this example here. By the way, you can
> nest lists inside blockquotes!
> - Fantastic!
- Lists support preformatted text
You just need to indent eight spaces.
Even More
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Horizontal Rule
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If you need a horizontal rule you just need to put at least three hyphens, asterisks, or underscores on a line by themselves. You can also even put spaces between the characters.
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Those three all produced horizontal lines. Keep in mind that three hyphens under any text turns that text into a heading, so add a blank like if you use hyphens.
Images
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Images work exactly like links, but they have exclamation points in front. They work with references and titles too.
![Google Logo](http://www.google.com/images/errors/logo_sm.gif) and ![Happy].
[Happy]: http://www.wpclipart.com/smiley/simple_smiley/smiley_face_simple_green_small.png ("Smiley face")
Inline HTML
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If markdown is too limiting, you can just insert your own crazy HTML. Span-level HTML can *still* use markdown. Block level elements must be separated from text by a blank line and must not have any spaces before the opening and closing HTML.