learn-git-milestones
Markdown Introduction
Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating rich text.
- It has a simple syntax similar to HTML
- It is the standard language for formatting README files (what you are currently viewing!)
- Files use the
.mdextension and can be edited with any plain text editor (e.g. VS Code). - Preview using the VS Code or the Markdown Viewer browser extension
Examples
| Markdown | Output | HTML of output |
|---|---|---|
[link](https://davidson.edu) |
link | <a href="https://davidson.edu">link</a> |
**bold text** |
bold text | <b>bold text</b> |
*italicized text* |
italicized text | <i>italicized text</i> |
\`code` |
code |
<code>code</code> |
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 |
<img alt="text" src="assets/img/icon.png"> |
See this github markdown cheatsheet for more examples