What is Markdown?

• Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax aimed at making writing for the internet easier. The philosophy behind Markdown is that plain text documents should be readable without tags mussing everything up, but there should still be ways to add text modifiers like lists, bold, italics, etc.

what are the uses of markdown?

• Markdown can be used for everything. But specially People use it to create:-

• websites.

• documents.

• notes.

• books.

• presentations.

• email messages.

• technical documentation.

who are founders markdown?

John Gruber and Aaron Swartz created Markdown in 2004 as a markup language that is appealing to human readers in its source code form.

headings

• 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

• output :-

  heading 1

  heading 2

  heading 3

  heading 4

  heading 5

list

• As we have seen in HTML there are two types of List unordered and ordered list.

To create an unordered list of items, you can use the hyphen(-) or asterisk ( *) and space as a prefix to item.

  -one
  -Two
  -Three
  -Four

        -Four_one
        -Four_two

output:-

1. one
2. Two
3. Three

4. Four

   1. Four_one
   2. Four_two

Bold and Italics

• To bold text , add two asterisks or underscores before and after a word or phrase. To bold the middle of a word for emphasis, add two asterisks without spaces around the letters.

• To italicize text , add one asterisk or underscore before and after a word or phrase. To italicize the middle of a word for emphasis, add one asterisk without spaces around the letters.

     I just love **bold text** //  I just love bold text.
     Italicized text is the *cat's meow*  // Italicized text is the cat’s meow.
  

links

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

      [ineuron] (https://ineuron.com)
  

  ineuron.com

images

• The syntax of rendering an image is almost similar to linking a URL. You need to prefix the syntax of a link with a (!) symbol to render an image.

        ![markdown_logo](IMAGE_PATH)
        https://www.kamailio.org/w/2022/05/converting-kamailio-wiki-to-markdown/
  

Block quotes

• To create a blockquote , add a > in front of a paragraph.

                 > This is blockquote text
  

Happy Learning!!