Standard Markdown

BLOCK ELEMENTS

HEADERS

This is an H1

This is an H2

Any number of underlining =’s or -’s will work.

This is an H1

This is an H2

This is an H6

BLOCKQUOTES

This is the first level of quoting.

This is nested blockquote.

Back to the first level.

Blockquotes can contain other Markdown elements, including headers, lists, and code blocks:

This is a header.

1. This is the first list item.
2. This is the second list item.

Here's some example code:

return shell_exec("echo $input | $markdown_script");

LISTS

• Red
• Green
• Blue

is equivalent to:

• Red
• Green
• Blue

and:

• Red
• Green
• Blue

Ordered lists use numbers followed by periods:

1. Bird
2. McHale
3. Parish

CODE BLOCKS

This is a normal paragraph:

This is a code block.

One level of indentation — 4 spaces or 1 tab — is removed from each line of the code block. For example, this:

Here is an example of AppleScript:

tell application "Foo" beep end tell

HORIZONTAL RULES

HARD LINE BREAKS

End a line with two or more spaces:

Roses ar red, Violets are blue.

SPAN ELEMENTS

LINKS

This is an example inline link.

This link has no title attribute.

Here’s an example of reference links in action:

I get 10 times more traffic from Google than from Yahoo or MSN.

EMPHASIS

single asterisks

single underscores

double asterisks

double underscores

CODE

Use the printf() function.

IMAGES

![Alt text][id] [id]: /path/to/img.jpg "Optional title"

EMAIL

Contact to example@example.com.

Standard Markdown Syntax References : http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax