Markdown Notes

On This Page

• Markdown Notes
• Headers
  • Atx-style Headers with no matched closing characters
• Header 1
  • Header 2
    • Header 3
      • Header 4
        • Header 5
          • Header 6
    • "Closed" atx-style headers with matched closing characters
    • "Closed" atx-style headers with unmatched closing characters
  • Setext-style headers
• Header 1
  • Header 2
    • Number of underline characters don't matter
• Paragraphs

Headers

Atx-style Headers with no matched closing characters

    # Header 1
    ## Header 2
    ### Header 3
    #### Header 4
    ##### Header 5
    ###### Header 6

Produces:

Header 1

Header 2

Header 3

Header 4

Header 5

Header 6

"Closed" atx-style headers with matched closing characters

This closing sytle is optional and is for improving appearance only.

    # Header 1 #
    ## Header 2 ##
    ### Header 3 ###
    #### Header 4 ####
    ##### Header 5 #####
    ###### Header 6 ######

"Closed" atx-style headers with unmatched closing characters

    # Header 1 #
    ## Header 2 #
    ### Header 3 #
    #### Header 4 #
    ##### Header 5 #
    ###### Header 6 #

Setext-style headers

Header 1
========
Header 2
--------

Header 1

Header 2

Number of underline characters don't matter

    Header 1
    =
    Header 2
    -

Still produces:

Header 1

Header 2

Paragraphs

Paragraph are just text with no blank lines between them. Paragraphs can contain single line breaks:

This is a paragraph
with line breaks between
the lines.

This is the start
of a new paragraph.

This renders as:

This is a paragraph with no line break between the lines.

This is the start of a new paragraph.

AT&T