What is Markdown?

Markdown is the lightweight Markup language created by John Gruber in 2004.

It is used to format the elements in a document such as to bold,italics,headings etc. It is supported by almost all editors and saved as .md extension.

Different Markdown Attributes.

1. Headings:

It is written as

# This is first heading
## This is second heading
### This is third heading

and so on upto 6 headings.

2. Paragraph:

You can write directly start writing paragraph after a blank line and interpreter detects it,or you can use

 <p> This is a paragraph <p>

3. Bold:

The text is made bold with double underscores or stars.

__This is bold text__

it is printed as,

This is bold text.

Or,

**This is also bold text**

Which prints as,

This is also bold text

4. Italics:

Italics is written as single underscore or star as,

_this is italics_
*this is also italics*

this prints as,

this is italics

this is also italics

5. Combined bold & italics:

You can use combination of bold and italics as.

***text***
___text___
*__text__*

This prints as,

This is bold plus italics

This is also bold plus italics

This is also bold plus italics

6. Strikethrough:

It is done through single tilde.

~text~

7. Quotes:

>Everyday is a great day.

is printed as,

Everyday is a great day.

8. URL Linking:

You can link url of website as,

[CoderCommunity](https://web.codercommunity.io)

which is rendered as,

CoderCommunity

9. Embedding Image:

which is written as,

![Markdown](https://cdn.icon-icons.com/icons2/1524/PNG/512/markdown_106519.png)

10. Lists.

A. Ordered List:

It is written as:

1. One
2. Two
3. Three

B. Unordered List

It is written as,

- One
- Two
- Three

You can also use +,-,*

11. Code block:

It allow us to write codes in a specified block as below.

#include<stdio.h>
void main(){
   printf("We have printed this in code block");
   return 0;
}

Which was written as,

tilde tilde ~C
#include<stdio.h>
void main(){
   printf("We have printed this in code block");
   return 0;
}
tilde tilde ~

Do note we have written C after initial tilde,which give us unique color combination for that language. Same goes with other languages.

12. Tables:

You can write table as in below format,

which was written as,

| Name      | Roll No | Marks |
| --------- | --------|------- |
| Nadeem  | 4          | 99        |
| Rohan        | 12       | 98 |
| Mohan| 3 | 97 |

The spae before and after the start pipe doesn't matter so much here and table takes the value as that aij value.

So,this was a brief cheat sheet on markdonwn.Apart from these there are many other text and custom formattings which you can explore,but from the beginner's point of view these are enough.

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