This Markdown cheat sheet provides a quick overview of Markdown syntax elements.

Headings

Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

Heading 4

Heading 5

Heading 6

Emphasis

Emphasis, aka italics, with asterisks or underscores.

Strong emphasis aka bold, with two asterisks or underscores.

Combined emphasis with asterisks and underscores.

Strikethrough with two tildes.

Images

Lists

Ordered:

1. First ordered list item
2. Another item
3. Actual numbers don’t matter, just that it’s a number
   1. 1st.
   2. 2nd.
   3. 3rd.

Unordered:

• This is a list item
  • This is a nested list item
    • This is a nested list item
  • This is another list item
• This is another list item

Links

This is a link.

This link has a title attribute.

Tables

Blockquotes

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

You can reference a footnote like this.

If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? ¹

Code

Inline code has back-ticks around it.

var s = "JavaScript syntax highlighting";
alert(s);

{
  "firstName": "John",
  "lastName": "Smith",
  "age": 25
}

Horizontal Rules

Horizontal rule uses three or more hyphens (---), asterisks (***), or underscores (___).

Footnotes