Markdown cheatsheet

Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber and Aaron Swartz created Markdown in 2004 as a markup language that is appealing to human readers in its source code form. Markdown is widely used in blogging, instant messaging, online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files.

Footnotes

Lorem ipsum[^1] dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.[^2]

Lorem ipsum¹ dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.²

Keys

++ctrl+alt+delete++

Ctrl+Alt+Del

Emojis

See emoji list

:warning: :construction: :de: :us: :round_pushpin: :arrow_forward: :exclamation: :earth_africa: :question:
:grin: :-1: :+1: :shit: :see_no_evil: :telescope:

Biomass :evergreen_tree:

Photovoltaic :sunny:

Heat Demand :house:

Biomass

Photovoltaic

Heat Demand

Symbols

(c) Zafh.net 2019

+/-

-->
1/4
2/3

https://hft-stuttgart.de

±

→ ¼ ⅔

https://hft-stuttgart.de

Blocks

??? success "Just a test"
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla et euismod
    nulla. Curabitur feugiat, tortor non consequat finibus, justo purus auctor
    massa, nec semper lorem quam in massa.

Just a test

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla et euismod nulla. Curabitur feugiat, tortor non consequat finibus, justo purus auctor massa, nec semper lorem quam in massa.

???+ warning "OHLALA"
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla et euismod
    nulla. Curabitur feugiat, tortor non consequat finibus, justo purus auctor
    massa, nec semper lorem quam in massa.

OHLALA

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla et euismod nulla. Curabitur feugiat, tortor non consequat finibus, justo purus auctor massa, nec semper lorem quam in massa.

???+ danger "BOUM!"
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla et euismod
    nulla. Curabitur feugiat, tortor non consequat finibus, justo purus auctor
    massa, nec semper lorem quam in massa.

BOUM!

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla et euismod nulla. Curabitur feugiat, tortor non consequat finibus, justo purus auctor massa, nec semper lorem quam in massa.

Also available are:

info

tip

note

abstract

bug

example

fail

quote

question

https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/extensions/admonition/ for more info.

Headings

Headings from h1 through h6 are constructed with a # for each level. There should only be one h1, at the very beginning of the markdown file.

## h2 Heading
### h3 Heading
#### h4 Heading
##### h5 Heading
###### h6 Heading

Renders to:

h2 Heading

h3 Heading

h4 Heading

h5 Heading

h6 Heading

Paragraphs

Body copy written as normal plain-text will be wrapped with <p></p> tags in the rendered HTML.

So this:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, graecis denique ei vel, at duo primis mandamus. Et legere ocurreret pri, animal tacimates complectitur ad cum. Cu eum inermis inimicus efficiendi. Labore officiis his ex, soluta officiis concludaturque ei qui, vide sensibus vim ad.

Renders to this:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, graecis denique ei vel, at duo primis mandamus. Et legere ocurreret pri, animal tacimates complectitur ad cum. Cu eum inermis inimicus efficiendi. Labore officiis his ex, soluta officiis concludaturque ei qui, vide sensibus vim ad.

Breaks

You can use multiple consecutive newline characters (\n) to create extra spacing between sections in a markdown document. However, if you need to ensure that extra newlines are not collapsed, you can use as many HTML <br> elements as you want.

Horizontal Rule

The HTML <hr> element is for creating a "thematic break" between paragraph-level elements. In markdown, you can use of the following for this purpose:

___: three consecutive underscores
---: three consecutive dashes
***: three consecutive asterisks

Renders to:

Emphasis

Bold

For emphasizing a snippet of text with a heavier font-weight.

The following snippet of text is rendered as bold text.

**rendered as bold text**

renders to:

rendered as bold text

Italics

For emphasizing a snippet of text with italics.

The following snippet of text is rendered as italicized text.

_rendered as italicized text_

renders to:

rendered as italicized text

Blockquotes

Used for defining a section of quoting text from another source, within your document.

To create a blockquote, use > before any text you want to quote.

> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer posuere erat a ante

Renders to:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer posuere erat a ante.

Blockquotes can also be nested:

> Donec massa lacus, ultricies a ullamcorper in, fermentum sed augue.
Nunc augue augue, aliquam non hendrerit ac, commodo vel nisi.
>> Sed adipiscing elit vitae augue consectetur a gravida nunc vehicula. Donec auctor
odio non est accumsan facilisis. Aliquam id turpis in dolor tincidunt mollis ac eu diam.
>>> Donec massa lacus, ultricies a ullamcorper in, fermentum sed augue.
Nunc augue augue, aliquam non hendrerit ac, commodo vel nisi.

Renders to:

Donec massa lacus, ultricies a ullamcorper in, fermentum sed augue. Nunc augue augue, aliquam non hendrerit ac, commodo vel nisi.

Sed adipiscing elit vitae augue consectetur a gravida nunc vehicula. Donec auctor odio non est accumsan facilisis. Aliquam id turpis in dolor tincidunt mollis ac eu diam.

Donec massa lacus, ultricies a ullamcorper in, fermentum sed augue. Nunc augue augue, aliquam non hendrerit ac, commodo vel nisi.

Lists

Unordered

A list of items in which the order of the items does not explicitly matter.

You may use any of the following symbols to denote bullets for each list item:

* valid bullet
- valid bullet
+ valid bullet

For example

+ Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
+ Consectetur adipiscing elit
+ Integer molestie lorem at massa
+ Facilisis in pretium nisl aliquet
+ Nulla volutpat aliquam velit
    - Phasellus iaculis neque
    - Purus sodales ultricies
    - Vestibulum laoreet porttitor sem
    - Ac tristique libero volutpat at
+ Faucibus porta lacus fringilla vel
+ Aenean sit amet erat nunc
+ Eget porttitor lorem

Renders to:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
Consectetur adipiscing elit
Integer molestie lorem at massa
Facilisis in pretium nisl aliquet
Nulla volutpat aliquam velit
- Phasellus iaculis neque
- Purus sodales ultricies
- Vestibulum laoreet porttitor sem
- Ac tristique libero volutpat at
Faucibus porta lacus fringilla vel
Aenean sit amet erat nunc
Eget porttitor lorem

Ordered

A list of items in which the order of items does explicitly matter.

1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
2. Consectetur adipiscing elit
3. Integer molestie lorem at massa
4. Facilisis in pretium nisl aliquet
5. Nulla volutpat aliquam velit
6. Faucibus porta lacus fringilla vel
7. Aenean sit amet erat nunc
8. Eget porttitor lorem

Renders to:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
Consectetur adipiscing elit
Integer molestie lorem at massa
Facilisis in pretium nisl aliquet
Nulla volutpat aliquam velit
Faucibus porta lacus fringilla vel
Aenean sit amet erat nunc
Eget porttitor lorem

Time-saving Tip

Sometimes lists change, and when they do it's a pain to re-order all of the numbers. Markdown solves this problem by allowing you to simply use 1. before each item in the list.

For example:

1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
1. Consectetur adipiscing elit
1. Integer molestie lorem at massa
1. Facilisis in pretium nisl aliquet
1. Nulla volutpat aliquam velit
1. Faucibus porta lacus fringilla vel
1. Aenean sit amet erat nunc
1. Eget porttitor lorem

Automatically re-numbers the items and renders to:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
Consectetur adipiscing elit
Integer molestie lorem at massa
Facilisis in pretium nisl aliquet
Nulla volutpat aliquam velit
Faucibus porta lacus fringilla vel
Aenean sit amet erat nunc
Eget porttitor lorem

Code

Inline code

Wrap inline snippets of code with a single backtick: `.

For example, to show <div></div> inline with other text, just wrap it in backticks.

For example, to show `<div></div>` inline with other text, just wrap it in backticks.

"Fenced" code block

Three consecutive backticks, referred to as "code fences", are used to denote multiple lines of code: ```.

For example, this:

Example text here...

Appears like this when viewed in a browser:

Example text here...

And renders to something like this in HTML:

Indented code

You may also indent several lines of code by at least four spaces, but this is not recommended as it is harder to read, harder to maintain, and doesn't support syntax highlighting.

Example:

    // Some comments
    line 1 of code
    line 2 of code
    line 3 of code

// Some comments
line 1 of code
line 2 of code
line 3 of code

Syntax highlighting

Various markdown parsers, such as remarkable, support syntax highlighting with fenced code blocks. To activate the correct styling for the language inside the code block, simply add the file extension of the language you want to use directly after the first code "fence": ```js, and syntax highlighting will automatically be applied in the rendered HTML (if supported by the parser). For example, to apply syntax highlighting to JavaScript code:

grunt.initConfig({
  assemble: {
    options: {
      assets: 'docs/assets',
      data: 'src/data/*.{json,yml}',
      helpers: 'src/custom-helpers.js',
      partials: ['src/partials/**/*.{hbs,md}']
    },
    pages: {
      options: {
        layout: 'default.hbs'
      },
      files: {
        './': ['src/templates/pages/index.hbs']
      }
    }
  }
});

Which renders to:

grunt.initConfig({
  assemble: {
    options: {
      assets: 'docs/assets',
      data: 'src/data/*.{json,yml}',
      helpers: 'src/custom-helpers.js',
      partials: ['src/partials/**/*.{hbs,md}']
    },
    pages: {
      options: {
        layout: 'default.hbs'
      },
      files: {
        './': ['src/templates/pages/index.hbs']
      }
    }
  }
});

Links

Autolinks

Autolinks are absolute URIs and email addresses inside < and >. They are parsed as links, where the URI or email address itself is used as the link's label.

<http://example.com>

Renders to:

http://example.com

URIs or email addresses that are not wrapped in angle brackets are not recognized as valid autolinks by markdown parsers.

Inline links

[Assemble](http://assemble.io){target=_blank}

Renders to (hover over the link, there is no tooltip):

Assemble

Link titles

[Upstage](https://github.com/upstage/ "Visit Upstage!"){target=_blank}

Renders to (hover over the link, there should be a tooltip):

Upstage

Named Anchors

Named anchors enable you to jump to the specified anchor point on the same page. For example, each of these chapters:

# Table of Contents
  * [Chapter 1](#chapter-1)
  * [Chapter 2](#chapter-2)
  * [Chapter 3](#chapter-3)

will jump to these sections:

## Chapter 1 <a name="chapter-1"></a>
Content for chapter one.

## Chapter 2 <a name="chapter-2"></a>
Content for chapter one.

## Chapter 3 <a name="chapter-3"></a>
Content for chapter one.

Anchor placement

Note that placement of achors is arbitrary, you can put them anywhere you want, not just in headings. This makes adding cross-references easy when writing markdown.

Images

Images have a similar syntax to links but include a preceding exclamation point.

![icon](../images/icons/computer.png)

icon

or

![Minion](http://octodex.github.com/images/minion.png){target=_blank, style="height:200px;width:200px"}

Minion

or

![Alt text](../images/icons/media-removable.png "USB")

Like links, Images also have a footnote style syntax

![Alt text][id]

With a reference later in the document defining the URL location:

[id]: http://octodex.github.com/images/dojocat.jpg  "The Dojocat"

Raw HTML

Any text between < and > that looks like an HTML tag will be parsed as a raw HTML tag and rendered to HTML without escaping.

(Note that no attempt is made by the markdown parser to validate your HTML).

Example:

**Visit <a href="https://github.com">Jon Schlinkert's GitHub Profile</a>.**

Renders to:

Visit Jon Schlinkert's GitHub Profile.

Escaping with backslashes

Any ASCII punctuation character may be escaped using a single backslash.

Example:

\*this is not italic*

Renders to:

*this is not italic*

Non-standard features

The following markdown features are not defined by the CommonMark specification, but they are commonly supported by markdown parsers and editors, as well as sites like GitHub and GitLab.

Strikethrough

In GFM you can do strickthroughs.

~~Strike through this text.~~

Which renders to:

~~Strike through this text.~~

Todo List

- [ ] Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
- [X] Consectetur adipiscing elit
- [ ] Integer molestie lorem at massa

Renders to:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
Consectetur adipiscing elit
Integer molestie lorem at massa

Links in todo lists

- [ ] [foo](#autolinks)
- [X] [baz](#inline-links)
- [ ] [fez](#link-titles)

Renders to:

foo
baz
fez

Tables

Tables are created by adding pipes as dividers between each cell, and by adding a line of dashes (also separated by bars) beneath the header (this line of dashes is required).

pipes do not need to be vertically aligned.
pipes on the left and right sides of the table are sometimes optional
three or more dashes must be used for each cell in the separator row

Example:

| Option | Description |
| ------ | ----------- |
| data   | path to data files to supply the data that will be passed into templates. |
| engine | engine to be used for processing templates. Handlebars is the default. |
| ext    | extension to be used for dest files. |

Renders to:

Option	Description
data	path to data files to supply the data that will be passed into templates.
engine	engine to be used for processing templates. Handlebars is the default.
ext	extension to be used for dest files.

Aligning cells

Center text in a column

To center the text in a column, add a colon to the middle of the dashes in the row beneath the header.

| Option | Description |
| -:- | -:- |
| data   | path to data files to supply the data that will be passed into templates. |
| engine | engine to be used for processing templates. Handlebars is the default. |
| ext    | extension to be used for dest files. |

Option	Description
data	path to data files to supply the data that will be passed into templates.
engine	engine to be used for processing templates. Handlebars is the default.
ext	extension to be used for dest files.

Right-align the text in a column

To right-align the text in a column, add a colon to the middle of the dashes in the row beneath the header.

| Option | Description |
| ------:| -----------:|
| data   | path to data files to supply the data that will be passed into templates. |
| engine | engine to be used for processing templates. Handlebars is the default. |
| ext    | extension to be used for dest files. |

Renders to:

Option	Description
data	path to data files to supply the data that will be passed into templates.
engine	engine to be used for processing templates. Handlebars is the default.
ext	extension to be used for dest files.

Footnotes

Markdown footnotes are not officially defined by the CommonMark specification. However, the feature is supported by remarkable and other markdown parsers, and it's very useful when available.

Markdown footnotes are denoted by an opening square bracket, followed by a caret, followed by a number and a closing square bracket: [^1].

This is some text[^1] with a footnote reference link.

The accompanying text for the footnote can be added elsewhere in the document using the following syntax:

[^1]: "This is a footnote"

When rendered to HTML, footnotes are "stacked" by the markdown parser at the bottom of the file, in the order in which the footnotes were defined.

Inline footnotes

Some markdown parsers also support inline footnotes. Inline footnotes are written using the following syntax: [^2 "This is an inline footnote"].

Source

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. ↩
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla et euismod nulla. Curabitur feugiat, tortor non consequat finibus, justo purus auctor massa, nec semper lorem quam in massa. ↩