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Markdown In brifly

The Ultimate Markdown Cheat Sheet

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Markdown In brifly

Markdown has gained popularity because it's widely accepted across platforms. You can use markdown to write content that can be convert in plain text into a blog and beautiful page.

What is Markdown?

Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to add formatting elements to plaintext text documents. Markdown is now one of the world’s most popular markup languages.

Why Use Markdown?

  • Markdown is platform independent. You can create Markdown-formatted text on any device running any operating system.
  • People use it to create websits, documents, notes,books, presentations, email messages, and technical documentation.

    How Does it Work?

    When you write in Markdown, the text is stored in a plaintext file that has an .md or .markdown extension. But then what? How is your Markdown-formatted file converted into HTML or a print-ready document? Markdown applications use something called a Markdown processor (also commonly referred to as a “parser” or an “implementation”) to take the Markdown-formatted text and output it to HTML format. At that point, your document can be viewed in a web browser or combined with a style sheet and printed. You can see a visual representation of this process below. #Tools that Support Markdown
  • VSCode
  • Atom
  • Haroopad
  • Sublime text
  • MarkPad

Markdown Cheat Sheet

ElementMarkdown Syntax
Heading# H1 ## H2 ### H3
Boldbold text
Italicitalicized text
Blockquote> blockquote
Ordered List1. First item 2. Second item 3. Third item
Unordered List- First item - Second item - Third item
Codecode
Horizontal Rule---
Linktitle
Image! alt text