Introduction

The following markdown cheatsheet is adapted from: guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown

What is Markdown?

Markdown is a way to style text on the web. You control the display of the document; formatting words as bold or italic, adding images, and creating lists are just a few of the things we can do with Markdown. Mostly, Markdown is just regular text with a few non-alphabetic characters thrown in, like # or *.

Syntax guide

Here’s an overview of Markdown syntax that you can use anywhere on GitHub.com or in your own text files.

Headers

# This is a h1 tag ## This is a h2 tag #### This is a h4 tag

This is a h1 tag

This is a h2 tag

This is a h4 tag

Emphasis

_This text will be italic_ **This text will be bold** _You **can** combine them_

This text will be italic

This text will be bold

You can combine them

Lists

Unordered

- Item 1- Item 2  - Item 2a  - Item 2b

• Item 1

• Item 2

  • Item 2a

  • Item 2b

Ordered

1. Item 11. Item 21. Item 3   1. Item 3a   1. Item 3b

1. Item 1

2. Item 2

3. Item 3

   1. Item 3a

   2. Item 3b

Images

![GitHub Logo](https://github.githubassets.com/images/modules/logos_page/GitHub-Mark.png)Format: ![Alt Text](url)

Links

http://github.com - automatic![GitHub](http://github.com)

github.com - automatic! GitHub

Blockquotes

As Kanye West said: > We're living the future so> the present is our past.

As Kanye West said:

We're living the future so the present is our past.

Inline code

I think you should use an`<addr>` element here instead.

I think you should use an <addr> element here instead.

Syntax highlighting

Here’s an example of how you can use syntax highlighting with GitHub Flavored Markdown:

```js:fancyAlert.jsfunction fancyAlert(arg) {  if (arg) {    $.facebox({ div: '#foo' })  }}```

And here's how it looks - nicely colored with styled code titles!

function fancyAlert(arg) {  if (arg) {    $.facebox({ div: "#foo" });  }}

Footnotes

Here is a simple footnote[^1]. With some additional text after it. [^1]: My reference.

Here is a simple footnote¹. With some additional text after it.

Task Lists

- [x] list syntax required (any unordered or ordered list supported)- [x] this is a complete item- [ ] this is an incomplete item

• list syntax required (any unordered or ordered list supported)

• this is a complete item

• this is an incomplete item

Tables

You can create tables by assembling a list of words and dividing them with hyphens - (for the first row), and then separating each column with a pipe |:

| First Header                | Second Header                || --------------------------- | ---------------------------- || Content from cell 1         | Content from cell 2          || Content in the first column | Content in the second column |