About Markdown
Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to add formatting elements to plaintext documents. Created by John Gruber in 2004, Markdown is now one of the world's most popular markup languages.
Supported Features
Headings, bold, italic, strikethrough
Ordered and unordered lists
Links and images
Code blocks with syntax highlighting
Tables (GitHub Flavored Markdown)
Where to use Markdown?
- GitHub: README, Issues, Pull Requests and comments
- Documentation: Documentation sites like GitBook, MkDocs
- Blogs: Platforms like Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby