Written by: Abayomi Ogunnusi

According to the official site definition. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to add formatting elements to plaintext text documents. Created by John Gruber in 2004, Markdown is now one of the world’s most popular markup languages.

This is the basics of clear communication used in most version control and collaborative platforms such as Github.

In this post I will be giving a summary of the commonly used markdown syntax. For clarity sake, the raw format are written above and the output of the markdown are written below.

Headings are written with hashtags. One '#' is equivalent to the 'h1' in HTML syntax and so on.

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

h1

h2

h3

h4

h5

h6

Lists

lists can be written with - or * or + sign symbols. 
## Unordered list 
- first time
- first time

Unordered list

• first time
• first time

or use: 
* item 1
* item 2
* item 3

• item 1
• item 2
• item 3

Nested list using hyphen. Always ensure you put space after the hyphen

- first time
- first time
  - second time

• first time
• first time
  • second time

Progress list

- [ ] item 1
- [ ] item 2
- [ ] item

• [ ] item 1
• [ ] item 2
• [ ] item

check list or task list

- [x] item 1
- [x] item 2
- [x] item 3

• [x] item 1
• [x] item 2
• [x] item 3

The above list could also be written as

* [x] item 1
* [x] item 2
* [x] item 3

• [x] item 1
• [x] item 2
• [x] item 3

Ordered list

1. item 1
2. item 2

1. item 1
2. item 2

GitHub list: Reordering occurs automatically

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

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

Links

[this contain the link description](this contains the actual link)

HOMEPAGE

Links with title

[this contain the link description](this contains the actual link "this contains the link alt text")

web glance

Inline code using the backtick

this is an inline `code`

this is an inline code

Block of codes use three surrounding back ticks used in writing specific language syntax. Ensure to put the language immediately after the backtick as shown below.

<p> a paragraph example</p>

<p> a paragraph example</p>

let table = 3;

Before and after results using block quotes

Before

console.log('test')

after

console.log('new test')

the above code block can be re-written as :

-console.log('test`)
+console.log('new test`)
console.log('neutral')

diff -console.log('test) +console.log('new test) console.log('neutral')

Block quotes

> this is a block quote

this is a block quote

Adding pictures

![image](http://picsum.photos/200/200)
![purple markdown icon](http://markdown-here.com/img/icon256.png)

##Emphasis (strong)

this is a bold **text**
or __bold__

this is a bold text or bold

Emphasis (italics)

This is an *italics*
or 
_italics_

This is an italics or italics

Writing language syntax using markdown

function add(a,b){
return a + b;

Tables

| User | Email  |
| --- | --- |
| abayomi | abayomiogunnusi@gmail.com |
| isreal | isreal@gmail.com |

Tables

strike through is achieved using ~~ ~~

~~strike~~

strike

Checklist

- [ ] abayomi
- [ ] abayomi
- [ ] abayomi
- [ ] abayomi
- [x] abayomi

• [ ] abayomi
• [ ] abayomi
• [ ] abayomi
• [ ] abayomi
• [x] abayomi

##Tag people use the '@' symbol

@wowzone
@deenn @drsimplegraffiti

{% instagram CNFfRqkAPcd %} {% github drsimplegraffiti/drsimplegraffiti %}