Introduction

What is Markdown?

Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting syntax aimed for web writers. It allows you to easily write text, without the need or help of external tools or a user interface, that later will be formatted as HTML while maintaining readability. Markdown can be used instead of or in conjunction of text formatted with BBCode.

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Text formatting

Creating bold text

To make a piece of text bold, enclose it in a pair of ** or __, e.g.

**Hello**

or

__Hello__

will become

Hello

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Creating italic text

To italicise text, enclose it in a pair of * or _, e.g.

*Great!*

or

_Great!_

will become

Great!

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Creating strikethrough text

To strikethrough text, enclose it in a pair of ~~, e.g.

~~Good morning~~

will become

Good morning

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Creating subscript text

To create subscript text, enclose it in a pair of ~, e.g.

H~2~O

will become

H₂O

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Creating superscript text

To create a superscript text, add ^ before the text, e.g.

2^n

will become

2ⁿ

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Creating headers

To create headers, add from 1 up to 6 # followed by a space before the text. The higher the number, the smaller the text would be, e.g.

# H1
## H2
### H3
#### H4
##### H5
###### H6

will become

H1

H2

H3

H4

H5

H6

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Quoting and outputting fixed-width text

Quoting text in replies

To quote text, add > and optionally an space before the text line, e.g.

> Quoted text

will become

Quoted text

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Outputting code

To output code, enclose it in a pair of ``` or ~~~, or alternatively add 4 empty spaces before each line. You can also specify the language in the first marker, e.g.

```ruby
puts "Hello #{user}!"
```

will become

puts "Hello #{user}!"

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Outputting inline code

To output inline code, enclose it in pair of ` or ``, e.g.

`<div>` tag

or

``<div>`` tag

will become

<div> tag

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Generating tables

Creating tables

To create tables, add a line of text divided with | which will be the table headers, after that a new line with - and optionally : to the left, on both sides or to the right to align the text of that column, again divided with |. All successive lines divided with | will be rendered as table rows, e.g.

| Left | Center | Right |
|:-----|:------:|------:|
|   x  |    x   |   x   |

or

Left|Center|Right
:-|:-:|-:
x|x|x

will become

Left	Center	Right
x	x	x

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Generating spoilers

Creating block spoilers

To create a block spoiler, add >! and optionally an space before the text line. Subsequent lines can be started with >, e.g.

>! Spoiler text
> Another line

will become

Spoiler text
Another line

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Creating inline spoilers

To create an inline spoiler, enclose the text inside >! and !< or inside a pair of ||, e.g.

This is a Reddit-style >!spoiler!<.
This is a Discord-style ||spoiler||.

will become

This is a Reddit-style spoiler.
This is a Discord-style spoiler.

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Generating lists

Creating unordered list

To create an unordered list, add *, - or + followed by an space before each list item. Lists can be nested by adding 4 additional spaces or a tab to create a sublevel, e.g.

- Element
    - Subelement
- Element

will become

• Element
  • Subelement
• Element

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Creating ordered list

To create an ordered list, add a digit followed by a dot and a space, e.g.

1. Element
    1. Subelement
2. Element

will become

1. Element
   1. Subelement
2. Element

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Creating task list

To create a task list, add *, - or + followed by an space, either [x] or [ ], and another space before each list item. The [x] and [ ] characters would display a checked box and an uncheked box, respectively, e.g.

- [x] Element
    - [x] Subelement
- [ ] Element

will become

• Element
  • Subelement
• Element

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Creating links

Linking to another site

To create links, add the link text inside square brackets followed by the link URL inside parentheses, e.g.

[Link text](http://example.org)

will become

Link text

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Showing images

Adding images

To show an image, add an exclamation mark followed by the image alternate text inside square brackets and then the image URL inside parenthesis, e.g.

![phpBB](https://www.phpbb.com/assets/images/images/logos/blue/160x52.png)

will become

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Extras

Creating horizontal rules

To create a horizontal rule, add at least 3 *, - or _ optionally separated with a space, e.g.

***
* * *
---
- - -
___
_ _ _

will become

---

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