Description
Markdown is a light-weight markup language. It’s a fashion of writing paperwork that makes it simple to outline what the content material ought to appear like. It’s a algorithm that describes how textual content ought to present up on a web page. It defines headers, textual content kinds, hyperlinks, lists, and a lot extra. Markdown is used everywhere. It’s utilized in documentation, articles, notes, and may even be used to construct static web sites. I exploit it to put in writing Code docs, weblog articles, take notes.
Markdown is less complicated to put in writing than HTML, and it is simpler for many people to learn Markdown supply than HTML supply. Nevertheless, HTML is extra expressive (significantly relating to semantic tagging) and can obtain some particular results that is perhaps tough or inconceivable in Markdown. For instance, you may need to modify to using the HTML <code> ingredient for particular characters in code similar to nonbreaking areas.
If you happen to use GitHub, you’ll be aware of the README[dot]md recordsdata that present up within the root of a repository. The .md stands for Markdown. You possibly can even create a README in your GitHub profile to essentially customise your profile web page. On this course additionally, you will be some GitHub’s README particular markdown syntax/guidelines.