Markdown Cheatsheet

Markdown is a simple, human-readable way to format text. The examples below show Markdown-formatted text followed by the actual Markdown code.

Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

Heading 4

Heading 5

Heading 6

# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading 3
#### Heading 4
##### Heading 5
###### Heading 6

Formatting

Italics from single underscore
Italics from single asterisk
Bold from double underscore
Bold from double asterisk
Strikethrough is pretty neat amazing
Superscript level 10² activated. Nintendo^TM

_Italics from single underscore_
*Italics from single asterisk*
__Bold from double underscore__
**Bold from double asterisk**
Strikethrough is pretty ~~neat~~ amazing
Superscript level 10^2 activated. Nintendo^(TM)

Links

Most URLs automatically get recognized
www.google.com
http://mircosoft.com
https://github.com

To control the link text for URLs, put the text inside square brackets, immediately followed by the URL inside parenthesis. This links to Yahoo's homepage.

Most URLs automatically get recognized
www.google.com
http://mircosoft.com
https://github.com

To control the link text for URLs, put the text inside square brackets, immediately followed by the URL inside parenthesis. This links to [Yahoo's homepage](http://yahoo.com).

Images

Link to any publicly accessible image on the web. The format is very similar to URLs: an exclamation mark, the title of the image in square brackets, and the URL of the image in parenthesis.

This is a small BagTheWeb logo . It's place in-line so that the rest of the paragraph text flows around it.

Medium size image (600x600 pixels)

Very large images will scale to fit. (1920x1200 pixels)

This is a small BagTheWeb logo ![BTW logo](http://www.bagtheweb.com/assets/logo_top.png). It's place in-line so that the rest of the paragraph text flows around it.

Medium size image (600x600 pixels)
![image](http://www.greek-islands.us/greek-villages/santorini/santorini-map.jpg)

Very large images will scale to fit. (1920x1200 pixels)
![Santorini](http://sail-la-vie.com/images/areas/area_504_id_273.jpg)

Lists

Unordered List

• Item 1
• Item 2
  • Item 2a
  • Item 2b
• Item 3

Ordered List

1. Item 1
2. Item 2
   • Item 2a
   • Item 2b
3. Item 3

**Unordered List**

* Item 1
* Item 2
  * Item 2a
  * Item 2b
* Item 3

**Ordered List**

1. Item 1
1. Item 2
  * Item 2a
  * Item 2b
1. Item 3

Block Quote

This is some text in a blockquote.
Simply put one or more "greater than" symbols at
the start of the line.

This line is double-quoted.

> This is some text in a blockquote.
> Simply put one or more "greater than" symbols at
> the start of the line.
>> This line is double-quoted.

Horizonal Rule

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Code Blocks

Create inline code blocks by surrounding text with backticks (`).

To make multi-line code blocks, place three backticks (\`\`\`) on the lines before and after some text. The text inside of code blocks doesn't get converted to Markdown. It's a convenient way to show people examples of Mardown, or to quote text that has characters that might accidently get recognized as Markdown.

Markdown used for this example (shown as a block quote instead of a code block):

Create inline `code blocks` by surrounding text with backticks (\`).

```
To make multi-line code blocks, place three backticks (\`\`\`) on the lines before and after some text. The text inside of code blocks doesn't get converted to Markdown. It's a convenient way to show people examples of Mardown, or to quote text that has characters that might accidently get recognized as Markdown.
```

Escaping Markingdown Characters

Sometimes you need to write something that you don't want to get converted to Markdown. To accomplish this, "escape" (hide) the special characters that Markdown recognizes by placing a backslash \ in front of the character.

\ backslash
` backtick
* asterisk
_ underscore
{} curly braces
[] square brackets
() parentheses
# hash mark
+ plus sign
- minus sign (hyphen)
. dot
! exclamation mark
: colon
| pipe

\\ backslash
\` backtick
\* asterisk
\_ underscore
\{\} curly braces
\[\] square brackets
\(\) parentheses
\# hash mark
\+ plus sign
\- minus sign (hyphen)
\. dot
\! exclamation mark
\: colon
\| pipe