Markdown Cheat Sheet: Syntax You Will Use Every Day

Markdown is a way of writing formatted text using ordinary characters. You type a few symbols, and software turns them into headings, lists and links. It is used on GitHub, in documentation, in notes apps and in many blogs.

Text formatting

• **bold** makes bold text.
• *italic* or _italic_ makes italic text.
• ~~strike~~ crosses text out on most platforms.
• Wrap a short piece of code in single backtick characters to format it as code inline.

Headings

Put one to six hash signs at the start of a line, followed by a space. One hash is the biggest heading and six is the smallest.

# Main title
## Section
### Sub-section

Lists

- Bullet item
- Another item
  - Indented item

1. First step
2. Second step

Links and images

[Link text](https://example.com)
![Describe the picture](image.png)

An image is the same as a link with an exclamation mark in front. Always fill in the text in square brackets, because it is read aloud for people who can't see the image.

Code blocks and quotes

```js
console.log("hello");
```

> A quoted line starts with a greater-than sign.

Tables

Tables use pipes and dashes, and colons in the divider row set the alignment. They are tedious to type by hand, so build one in a grid with the Markdown Table Generator, or paste cells straight from a spreadsheet.

| Name  | Score |
| :---- | ----: |
| Ada   |    98 |
| Linus |    95 |

Practice and convert

Write and preview your text side by side in the Markdown Previewer. If you already have a web page or an HTML snippet, the HTML to Markdown Converter turns it into clean Markdown for you.