Hello Peeps! So once more I welcome you to a clear quick guide on Markdown, You may want to keep this one saved as a cheatsheet :)

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What is Markdown?

It is an easy-to-use markup language you can use to format virtually any document.

Now without much further ado lets get things going with the below easy to remember syntax:

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Headings

• It comes in 6 variations depending on the number of # you use.

• The less the #, the more bigger and bolder the heading.

• Syntax

  # Heading 1
  ## Heading 2
  ### Heading 3
  #### Heading 4
  ##### Heading 5
  ###### Heading 6
  

• Output

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Bold / Italics / Strikethrough

• *Usage depends on placing of asterisk, underscore and tilde symbols.

• Syntax

**Bold**

__Also Bold__

*Italic*

_Also Italic_

~~strikeme~~

• Output

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Ordered / Unordered List

• Usage depends on placing of numbers 1,2,3... or - symbol.

• Syntax

1. One
2. Two
    1. Ones
    2. Twos
    3. Threes

1. One
1. Two
    1. Ones 
    1. Twos
    1. Threes

- One
- Two
    - Ones 
    - Twos
    - Threes

• Output

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Links & Image Links

• For image links ensure use of smaller images preferably in PNG format as other large formats would not render.
• Use an additional ! symbol to denote that link is an image link.
• Square braces denote Link text or Image text (when image unavailable).

• Inverted commas have meta text or hover text.

• Syntax

[Google](https://www.google.com)

[Portfolio 1](https://web.codercommunity.io "My learning place")
[Portfolio 2](https://ineuron.ai)

![Mascot](https://learncodeonline.in/mascot.png)

![DP Image](./dp.jpg "local image")

![Random Image](./image.png "local image")

![Some Wiki Image](https://w7.pngwing.com/pngs/895/199/png-transparent-spider-man-heroes-download-with-transparent-background-free.png)

• Output

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Code Snippets

• Used to potray a code editor type formatted code.
• Supports most known languages.

• Specify language in lowercase with no-space in beginning to color-format per specific to the coded language format.

• Syntax

• Output

//Sample C++ Code

for(int i=0; i<10; i++){
    cout<<"This is output"<<endl;
}

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Blockquote / Line divider / Paragraph

• Blockquotes used generally to show output or quotes. > symbol used.
• Line divider used for showing line formatted separation in document. Use triple asterisk to denote line divide.

• No specific syntax for paragraph.

• Syntax

>This is a blockquote.

***

This is a normal para.

• Output

This is a blockquote.

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This is a normal para.

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Tables

• First row shows table headings
• Pipe symbol used as separator

• Syntax

| Tables  | Heading | Here |
| --- | --- | --- |
|one|two|three|
| four | five | six
| seven | eight | nine

• Output

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I hope you find this article short and crisp as ever & please do not waste much time in reading articles only, just read once and implement a million times :)