- Markdown is a way to style text on the web.
- You control the display of the document.
- formatting words as bold or italic.
- adding images, and creating lists are just a few of the things we can do with Markdown.
- Gists
- Comments in Issues and Pull Requests
- Files with the .md or .markdown extensio
Here’s an overview of Markdown syntax that you can use anywhere on GitHub.com or in your own text files.
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
- Item 3a 1 . Item 3b
GitHub.com uses its own version of the Markdown syntax that provides an additional set of useful features, many of which make it easier to work with content on GitHub.com