Markdown guide

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 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 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

phpBB
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Extras

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

LeftCenterRight
xxx
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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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