Text formatting examples

By Chris Oung

With Markdown, it is possible to emphasize words by making them italicized, using astericks or underscores, or making them bold, using double astericks or double underscores. Of course, you can combine those two formats, with both bold and italicized text, using any combination of the above syntax. You can also add a strikethrough to text using a double tilde.

You can create inline links by wrapping link text in square brackets [ ], and then wrapping the URL in parentheses ( ). For example you can link your home page.

If you have show_excerpts enabled, then this is the first paragraph that is only visible within the article and not in the preview. This is because excerpt_separator is set to two newlines which you can see above in the editor.

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Heading Two (h2)

Heading Three (h3)

Heading Four (h4)

Heading Five (h5)
Heading Six (h6)

Blockquotes

Single line

My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.

Multiline

What do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?

You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there’s a dog.

– Hal Incandenza

Horizontal Rule

Table

Title 1 Title 2 Title 3 Title 4
First entry Second entry Third entry Fourth entry
Fifth entry Sixth entry Seventh entry Eight entry
Ninth entry Tenth entry Eleventh entry Twelfth entry
Thirteenth entry Fourteenth entry Fifteenth entry Sixteenth entry

Lists

Unordered

Ordered

  1. First item
  2. Second item
  3. Third item
    1. First nested item
    2. Second nested item