Markdown is a great way to create blogs, websites, documents, notes, and much more.

This is a cheat sheet to help you get started with markdown.

Paragraph

To write you don't need to place anything at the beginning of the text, just start writing normally. That's it!!!

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Headings

Headings are given by placing # before the text.

# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading 3

Output

Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

There are total 6 headings in markdown but mostly 3 are used.

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Bold Text

To make the text bold you need to place the text between ** **.

Your **Bold** text will come here

Output

Your Bold text will come here

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Italic Text

To make the text Italic you need to place the text between * *.

Your *Italic* text will come here

Output

Your Italic text will come here

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Strike Through Text

To strike through the text you need to place the text between ~~ ~~.

Your ~~Striked~~ text will come here

Output

Your Striked text will come here

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Code Snippets

There are two ways in how you can add code to your markdown

1. Inline code
2. Block code

Inline Code

You can place small/one-line code snippets between two backticks There is a literal backtick (`) here.

Syntax

`<h1> Hello World</h1>`

Output <h1> Hello World</h1>

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Code Block

You can place whole block of code between six backticks Six backticks (``` ```)

Syntax

Output

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Lists

There are two type of lists:

1. Ordered List
2. Unordered List

Ordered List

To make an ordered list you need to put number. in front of the text and to have nested list you just need to give tab to the text and place a number in front of it.

1. One
2. Two
   1. Three
   2. One
   3. Two

Output

1. One
2. Two
   1. Three
   2. One
   3. Two

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Unordered List

To make an unordered list you need to put - in front of the text and nesting is similar to how it is done in the Ordered list.

- One
- Two
  - One
  - Two
  - Three

Output

• One
• Two
  • One
  • Two
  • Three

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Attaching Links

Syntax

[Title](link "Hover text")

Example

[Home](https://google.com "Google")

The " "is optional.

Output

Home

When you click on the link it will take you to the page.

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Inserting an Image

Inserting image into Markdown is similar to inserting links, just you need to put ! in front of the code.

Syntax

![Image](https://www.freepnglogos.com/images/google-logo-9808.html "Hover text")

Output

Please note that markdown does not allow you to modify the Image, like changing it's size or anything

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Blockquotes

We can blockquote a text or sentence by placing > in front of the text

> This sentence is blockquoted

Output

This sentence is blockquoted

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Break Lines

You can give line breaks by just giving ***

Syntax

***

Output

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This was a short cheatsheet on Markdown hope you find it useful. Thanks !

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