Markdown Cheatsheet

Other nice visual references:

• https://markdown-it.github.io/
• https://en.support.wordpress.com/markdown-quick-reference/

Headings

# h1 Heading
## h2 Heading
### h3 Heading
#### h4 Heading
##### h5 Heading
###### h6 Heading

Horizontial Rule

(3 or more dash or underscore characters)

---  or ___

Italic

*my words*   or   _my words_

Bold

**my words**   or   __my words__

Links

Inline:

[display text](http://example.com "Shows when hover")

Referenced:

For more [click me][1] and another [or me][2].

-- then somewhere else (like at the bottom of the page) ---

[1]: http://example.com/ "Shows when hover 1"
[2]: http://example.org/ "Shows when hover 2"

Images

Bare bones:

![](assets/example.jpg)

All the bells and whistles

!["alt" text here](assets/example.jpg "Hover over image text")

Referenced

![][1]

-- then somewhere else (like at the bottom of the page) ---

[1]: url/to/image.jpg "Shows when hover 1"

Linked image (simple)

Click this image [![](/example.jpg)](http://example.com/)

Linked image (bells and whistles)

Click this image [![alt text](/example.jpg)](http://example.com/ "Hover text here")

Blockquotes

> Add a ">" symbol in front of paragraph. 
> Connected ">" symbols (vertically) 
> get lumped together as one.

Code within blockquotes
Use a tab or spaces like usual, just pretend the > is the edge. IMPORTANT: Multi-line code requires one additional blockquote > after the code all by itself at the bottom.

 >  function(){
 >      var foo
 >      var bar
 >  }
 > <------------------- need this guy here

Footnotes

I have more [^1] to say up here.

-- then somewhere else (like at the bottom of the page) ---

[^1]: To say down here.

Lists

Unordered

* item 1
* item 2
* item3

-- or -- 

- item 1
- item 2
    * mixed
    * is
    * fine
    * too
- item 3

Ordered

1. item 1
2. item 2
3. item3

-- or (just as long as number-dot exists)--

1. item 1
1. item 2
1. item 3

Preformatted

    Begin line with 2 or more spaces or a tab.

Code

Inline

`This is code`

Block

```
This is too
```

Syntax Highlighted

```css
#button {
    border: none;
}
```

Definition List

Javascipt
:  A relatively easy language to learn

Markdown
:  Text-to-HTML conversion tool

Abreviations

For example HTML stands for (hover over HTML)

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*[HTML]: HyperText Markup Language