An introduction to Markdown

In this article I'll provide you a basic understanding of Markdown, it's usage and syntax.

What is markdown ?

Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to add formatting elements to plaintext text documents and they are save with a .md extension

Markdown is widely used by developers to create a nice documentation, user guides, notes and cheat sheets for their projects. Let's learn how to write it.

Paragraphs

Everything that is written in a markdown file is wrapped with in a paragraph by default. You can seperate the paragraphs a leaving a line between the.

  Hello I am a paragraph having two lines
  in my body with fourteen words.

  I am another paragraph separated from above para.

Headings

We can create headings with hashes(#) followed by a space and heading. The more are hashes, the lesser font size

# Title Heading
## Sub Title
### Topics
#### Sub-Topics

Bold Text

We can make bold text by wrapping them with double asterisks **Here** or with double underscores __Here__.

I am making this text into **Bold** and __this one__ too

Italic Text

We can make text italic by wrapping them with single asteris *Here* or with single underscore _Here_

I am making this text into *Italic* and _this one_ too

Images

We can add Images to our markdown file to make the information more understandable

![Image]{https://www.example.com/your-image-link}

Links

We can add links in our markdown file to provide the users with required references such as a blog, documentation, git repo etc.

[Click Here](https://www.yourlink.com/your-link)

Ordered List

Ordered list gives information in an order with a numeric count as a prefix.

1. One
2. Two
3. Three

Unordered List

Text written with a hyphen as prefix will give unordered list -Text

- One

   This is one

- Two

   This is two

-  Three

    This is three

Writing Code

We can include code of any language wrapped with back-ticks.

`
Console.log("Hello World")
`

Blockquote

We can write some quotes or definitions or some important information as Blockquote so that the user will turn his eyes to it

> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus augue sem, porta a sem non, imperdiet dignissim diam. Morbi imperdiet mollis augue ac congue.

That's it for Markdown guys. You can study more about markdown in detail from here. Have a great day!