Markdown is a lightweight and easy-to-use syntax for styling all forms of writing on the GitHub platform.
Markdown standards are as diverse as they are popular. This cheat sheet provides you with a solid baseline of common commands along with some of the most fun, and unique, rendering options specific to GitLab and GitHub. With this cheat sheet downloaded, you might just stop opening LibreOffice and spend more time writing in your favorite IDE.
- Markdown coverts text with four leading spaces into a code block; with GFM you can wrap your code with ``` to create a code block without the leading spaces. Add an optional language identifier and your code with get syntax highlighting. EMOJI To see a list of every image we support, check out www.emoji-cheat-sheet.com ISSUE REFERENCES.
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- Photo by Christopher Gower on Unsplash. W hat is Markdown? Markdown is a way of writing rich-text (formatted text) content using plain text formatting syntax. From this post, you’ll learn all the Markdown’s major commands that will help you create an awesome GitHub README.
What you will learn:
- How the Markdown format makes styled collaborative editing easy
- How Markdown differs from traditional formatting approaches
- How to use Markdown to format text
- How to leverage GitHub’s automatic Markdown rendering
- How to apply GitHub’s unique Markdown extensions
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 *
.
You can use Markdown most places around GitHub:
- Comments in Issues and Pull Requests
- Files with the
.md
or.markdown
extension
For more information, see “Writing on GitHub” in the GitHub Help.
Examples
![Markdown Markdown](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/img/markdown_copy_from_spreadsheet_v12_7.png)
![Markdown Github Cheat Sheet Markdown Github Cheat Sheet](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hbons/git-cheat-sheet/master/preview.png)
Syntax guide
Here’s an overview of Markdown syntax that you can use anywhere on GitHub.com or in your own text files.
Headers
Emphasis
Lists
Unordered
Ordered
Images
Links
Blockquotes
Inline code
GitHub Flavored Markdown
![Markup language cheat sheet Markup language cheat sheet](https://blog.sellfy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/A-Printable-Markdown-Cheat-Sheet.png)
GitHub.com uses its own version of the Markdown syntax that provides an additional set of useful features, many of which make it easier to work with content on GitHub.com.
Note that some features of GitHub Flavored Markdown are only available in the descriptions and comments of Issues and Pull Requests. These include @mentions as well as references to SHA-1 hashes, Issues, and Pull Requests. Task Lists are also available in Gist comments and in Gist Markdown files.
Syntax highlighting
Here’s an example of how you can use syntax highlighting with GitHub Flavored Markdown:
You can also simply indent your code by four spaces:
Github Flavored Markdown Cheat Sheet
Here’s an example of Python code without syntax highlighting:
Task Lists
If you include a task list in the first comment of an Issue, you will get a handy progress indicator in your issue list. It also works in Pull Requests!
Tables
Markdown Syntax Cheat Sheet Pdf
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 |
:
Would become:
First Header | Second Header |
---|---|
Content from cell 1 | Content from cell 2 |
Content in the first column | Content in the second column |
SHA references
Any reference to a commit’s SHA-1 hash will be automatically converted into a link to that commit on GitHub.
Issue references within a repository
Any number that refers to an Issue or Pull Request will be automatically converted into a link.
Username @mentions
Typing an @
symbol, followed by a username, will notify that person to come and view the comment. This is called an “@mention”, because you’re mentioning the individual. You can also @mention teams within an organization.
![Github Github](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/project/wiki/media/markdown-guidance/checklist-pr-apply.png?view=azure-devops)
Github Markdown Code
Automatic linking for URLs
Any URL (like http://www.github.com/
) will be automatically converted into a clickable link.
Strikethrough
Any word wrapped with two tildes (like ~~this~~
) will appear crossed out.
Emoji
GitHub supports emoji!
To see a list of every image we support, check out the Emoji Cheat Sheet.
Last updated Jan 15, 2014
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