Markdown Cheat Sheet

Markdown is a markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. It is widely used in blogging, instant messaging, online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files.

Markdown (Wikipedia)
MarkItDown (GitHub, Microsoft)

Tools

To convert Markdown to a Microsoft Word document, install the Markdown PDF extension in Visual Studio Code. Right-click on the file and export to HTML. Open the HTML file in Word and Save as a .docx.

MkDocs

Examples

Titles

Heading
=======

Sub-heading
-----------

# Alternative heading

## Alternative sub-heading

Paragraphs

Paragraphs are separated by a blank line.

Second paragraph.

Two spaces at the end of a line produce a line break.

Text attributes

_this text is in italic_

**this text is in bold**

`this text is in monospace`

Horizontal rule:

---

Quotes

> Markdown uses email-style characters for blockquoting.
>
> Multiple paragraphs need to be prepended individually.

Lists

Bullet lists nested within numbered list:

  1. fruits
     * apple
     * banana
  2. vegetables
     - carrot
     - broccoli

Links

[text for link](http://example.com)

Images

![Image](Icon-pictures.png "icon")

HTML tags

Most inline <abbr title="Hypertext Markup Language">HTML</abbr> tags are supported.