Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor.

This Article for Markdown cheat sheet provides a quick overview of all the Markdown syntax elements

The purpose of Markdown-formatted text is to make the document as readable as possible.

Markdown is platform independent. You can create Markdown-formatted text on any device running any operating system.

Markdown file is created with '.md' extension

There are many elements in Markdown, some of the basic syntax are listed below

1. Headers

This element is used to create headings,Hash(#) is used to define this

Syntax:
# H1
## H2
### H3
#### H4
##### H5
###### H6

Output for the above commands will be as below

H1

H2

H3

H4

H5

H6

2. Bold

Used to make text bold with ** **

Syntax:
     **Bold Text**

Output: Bold Text

3. Italic

Used to make text in italic style with * *

Syntax:
     *Italicized Text*

Output: Italicized Text

4. Blockquote

The text entered in blockquote will be displayed in block, it is refered with >

Syntax:
`>Hi all, welcome to this page`

the above line will be displayed in a block like below

Hi all, welcome to this page

5. Orderlist

Syntax:
1. First item
2.Second item

Output:

1. First item
2. Second item

6. Unorderedlist

Syntax:
-First item
-Second item

Output:

• First item
• Second item

7. Link

Syntax:
[title](https://www.example.com)

Output: title

8. Image

Syntax:
     ![alt text](image.jpg)

Output:

9. Strike

is used to strike the text using ~~ ~~

Syntax:
~~this line will be striked~~

10. Table

Syntax:
| Head1|Head2 |Head3|
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 7 | 8 | 9 |

Output of above commands: