Markdown cheat sheet

Prakash Dale · July 25, 2020

Mark Down

Basic syntax

Heading

# H1

## H2

### H3

Bold

**Bold**

Italic

*italicized text*

Link

[title](https://www.example.com)

Images

To add an image, add an exclamation mark (!), followed by alt text in brackets, and the path or URL to the image asset in parentheses. You can optionally add a title after the URL in the parentheses.

![Philadelphia's Magic Gardens. This place was so cool!](/assets/images/philly-magic-gardens.jpg "Philadelphia's Magic Gardens")

Horizontal Ruler

---

Table

To add a table, use three or more hyphens --- to create each column’s header, and use pipes | to separate each column. You can optionally add pipes on either end of the table.

| Syntax      | Description |
| ----------- | ----------- |
| Header      | Title       |
| Paragraph   | Text        |

The rendered output looks like this:

Syntax Description
Header Title
Paragraph Text

You can align text in the columns to the left, right, or center by adding a colon (:) to the left, right, or on both side of the hyphens within the header row.

| Syntax      | Description | Test Text     |
| :---        |    :----:   |          ---: |
| Header      | Title       | Here's this   |
| Paragraph   | Text        | And more      |

The rendered output looks like below:

Syntax Description Test Text
Header Title Here’s this
Paragraph Text And more

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