Introduction to Markdown

Markdown provides formatting on GitHub

You can use it in readme files, tickets, and even to generate the content of websites.

Text formatting

bold text: **bold**

Italic text: _Italic_

~Strikethrough~ text: ~Strikethrough~

Quoted text:

>Quoted text:

Headings

# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading 3

Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

```
Code blocks
```

Code blocks

Lists

Unordered list

 - unordered
 - bullet
 - points
  • unordered
  • bullet
  • points

Ordered list

1. Numbered
2. List
  1. Numbered
  2. List

[Link to another page](http://www.google.com) : Link to another page

Images

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RSE-Sheffield/RSE-Sheffield.github.io/master/assets/images/logo/rse-logoonly-stroke-small.png)

The parenthesis should contain either a url or a local path to an image

For a full list, visit GitHub’s Formatting Guide