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Short introduction of Markdown Markdown is a lightweight markup language created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz in 2004. It is widely used for blogging, instant messaging, online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files. Markdown was inspired by pre-existing conventions for marking up plain text in email and Usenet posts, such as the earlier markup languages setext, Textile, and reStructuredText. Learning Markdown is very essential in open source because you'll see README.md file on GitHub in every project, so you must have to learn it. In the above picture, you can see the README.md file which is here a profile's special readme file that everyone gets with the same username repository. ![Image(https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/djhc219badcn545oprx8.png) Now in this picture, you can see all the headings, bold, italic, code, link, etc.. formats are given and after using these before posting you can see the preview. Note: It is almost close to HTML but it is different from HTML because as I told you earlier it is a lightweight version of HTML. Let's see all the syntax of Markdown: Headings # A first-level heading ## A second-level heading ### A third-level heading Bold and Italic Bold italic For highlight In this, the line will be highlighted > This is a blockquote For ordered and unordered lists for ordered list 1. 2. for unordered list - - Code `code` javascript console.log For Links and Images This is for the link [Your Title](www.google.com) This is for the images ![Your Title](./images/opensource.png) Checked and unchecked lists - GitHub's extra flavor - [x] checked - [ ] unchecked Adding emoji Try it on GitHub or if you want to use it in VS Code install the :joy: Recommended

Feb 18, 2025 - 09:58

Short introduction of Markdown

Markdown is a lightweight markup language created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz in 2004. It is widely used for blogging, instant messaging, online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files. Markdown was inspired by pre-existing conventions for marking up plain text in email and Usenet posts, such as the earlier markup languages setext, Textile, and reStructuredText.

Learning Markdown is very essential in open source because you'll see README.md file on GitHub in every project, so you must have to learn it.

In the above picture, you can see the README.md file which is here a profile's special readme file that everyone gets with the same username repository.

![Image(https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/djhc219badcn545oprx8.png)

Now in this picture, you can see all the headings, bold, italic, code, link, etc.. formats are given and after using these before posting you can see the preview.

Note: It is almost close to HTML but it is different from HTML because as I told you earlier it is a lightweight version of HTML.

Let's see all the syntax of Markdown:

Headings

# A first-level heading
## A second-level heading
### A third-level heading

Bold and Italic

**Bold**
*italic*

For highlight
In this, the line will be highlighted

> This is a blockquote

For ordered and unordered lists

for ordered list
1.
2.
for unordered list
-
-

Code

`code`

javascript
console.log

For Links and Images

This is for the link

[Your Title](www.google.com)

This is for the images

![Your Title](./images/opensource.png)

Checked and unchecked lists - GitHub's extra flavor

- [x] checked
- [ ] unchecked

Adding emoji
Try it on GitHub or if you want to use it in VS Code install the

:joy:

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