

Text can be struck out within a paragraph: Text can be ~~struck out~~ within a paragraph. Requires markdown.strikethrough to be true (default). Literal *bold* can be forced by prefixing the opening * with \ such as \*bold*. It is strongly encouraged to review documentation for typos.Įmphasis within_words_is_ignored which helps write technical documentation. **It is _strongly_ encouraged to review documentation for typos.** This allows styles to be mixed within a statement: Emphasize paragraph text with *italic* and **bold** text. Either _ or * can be used for italic (1 character) and bold text (2 characters). EmphasisĮmphasize paragraph text with italic and bold styles. If no alignment is specified, the column is aligned with the default for HTML tags (left-aligned by default unless overridden by css).Įmpty table cells are indicated by whitespace between the column dividers ( | |) while multiple column cells omit the whitespace.

A colon on the left side is a left-aligned column a colon on the right-most side is right-aligned a colon on both sides is center-aligned. Placing : in the separator line indicates how the column should be aligned. The first line is the header row and subsequent lines are data rows: | Food | Calories | Tasty? | Simple tables are supported with column alignment. Requires markdown.tables to be true (default). Seed-associated structures of a plant that are sweet or sour, andĮdible in the raw state, such as apples, bananas, grapes, lemons, In common language usage, "fruit" normally means the fleshy In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering

Paragraphs can be properly nested within lists by indenting with at least 2 leading spaces: 1. Like bullet lists, numbered lists can be nested by using more leading space than the prior list item. Even with this feature it is a good idea to maintain list item numbers in the source Markdown to simplify reading the source file. List items will be renumbered sequentially by the browser, which is why 5 above displays as 2. Additionally, the entire list must be preceded and followed by a blank line. The second level items (above Orange, Pear) must be indented with more spaces than the item they are nested under. This form is discouraged as maintaining the length of the = or - lines to match the preceding line can be tedious work that is unnecessary with the # headers. Headings can also use the less popular two line = and - forms to create H1 and H2 level headers: A first level header The number of # used determines the depth of the heading in the document outline. Headings can be indicated by starting the line with one or more # marks. Web where it can be easily accessed for reading. Documentation writing can be fun and profitableīy helping users to learn and solve problems.Īfter documentation is written, it needs to be published on the Line breaks within a paragraph are ignored by the parser, allowing authors to line-wrap text at any comfortable column width. Paragraphs are one or more lines of consecutive text, followed by one or more blank lines. Additional extensions are supported to more closely match GitHub Flavored Markdown and simplify documentation writing. Gitiles supports the core Markdown syntax described in Markdown Basics. We recommend that Git repositories have an up-to-date top-level README.md file. README.md files are meant to provide orientation for developers browsing the repository, especially first-time users.
