what is markdown

s 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 *.

example

  • header

This is an <h1> tag

This is an <h2> tag

This is an <h6> tag
  • lists
  • Item 1
  • Item 2
    • Item 2a
    • Item 2b
  • images GitHub Logo Format: Alt Text