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Markdown / HTML Comparison

Paragraphs

Mark­down
Paragraphs are lines of text
(single returns are collapsed into a space)

Blank lines indicate a new paragraph
HTML
<p>­Par­agraphs are lines of text (single returns are collapsed into a space)­</p>

<p>­Blank lines indicate a new paragr­aph­</p>

Images

Mark­down
Images can be embedded: ![Image of dog](h­ttp­://­www.do­gs.c­om­/to­p_d­og.png)
HTML
<p>­Images can be embedded: <img source= "­htt­p:/­/ww­w.d­ogs.co­m/t­op_­dog.pn­g" title=­"­" alt="Image of dog" /><­/p>

Ordered Lists

Mark­down
HTML
1. First Item
<li­>First Item</­li>
2. Second Item
<li­>Second Item</­li>
3. Third Item
<li­>Third Item</­li>
List items are enclosed in <ol­></­ol>

Unordered Lists

Mark­down
HTML
* Alpha
<li­>Al­pha­</l­i>
* Beta
<li­>Be­ta<­/li>
* Gamma
<li­>Ga­mma­</l­i>
List items are enclosed in <ul­></­ul>

Headers - atx style

Mark­down
HTML
# H1 Header
<h1­>H1 Header­</h­1>
## H2 Header
<h2­>H2 Header­</h­2>
### H3 Header
<h3­>H3 Header­</h­3>

Headers - Setext style

Heading Level 1
==========

Heading Level 2
------­---­-----

Text Effects

Mark­down
HTML
_Italic_
<em­>It­ali­c</­em>
**Bo­ld**
<st­ron­g>B­old­</s­tro­ng>
~~Strikethrough~~
<de­l>S­tri­ket­hro­ugh­</d­el>

Resources

John Gruber Markdown site: Daring Fireball
Markdown specification:CommonMark
GitHub flavored markdown:GitHub Help
 

Horizontal Rule

Mark­down
---
*
- - -
HTML
<hr />

Links

Mark­down
Links are added like this: [link to my websit­e](­htt­p:/­/ww­w.f­eed­mec­hee­se.o­rg/)
HTML
Links are added like this: <a href="h­ttp­://­www.fe­edm­ech­ees­e.o­rg/­"­>link to Cheato­gra­phy­</a>

Block Quotes

Mark­down
> This is a
> blockquote
HTML
<bl­ock­quo­te>
<p>This is a
blockq­uot­e</­p>
</b­loc­kqu­ote>

Code Blocks Option 1

Mark­down
 ­ ­ ­ ­Indent text 4 characters or one tab
HTML
<pr­e><­cod­e>I­ndent text 4 characters or one tab</c­ode­></­pre>

Code Blocks Option 2

Mark­down
`This is code`
HTML
<p>­<co­de>This is code</­cod­e><­/p>

Code Syntax Highli­ghting

Mark­down
Code fencing (with backticks) and language:
```­`j­ava­script
if (isBad) {
return false
}
````
HTML
<p>Code fencing (with backticks) and langua­ge:­</p>
<div class=­"­hig­hlight highli­ght­-ja­vas­cri­pt">
<pr­e>
if (isBad) {
return false
}
</p­re>
</d­iv>

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  • Published: 9th April, 2015
  • Last Updated: 2nd November, 2018
  • Rated: 5 stars based on 1 ratings

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Comments

Great cheat sheet, Simon! I think in the "text effects" section, you need to escape the asterisks around "Bold" (use a backslash), as Cheatography uses a variant of Markdown for its own formating.

Simon Fermor Simon Fermor, 00:22 13 Apr 15

Thanks, nice catch. I just need a way to avoid back ticks being interpreted too...

DaveChild DaveChild, 10:07 13 Apr 15

Hi Simon. No problem - you can now escape backticks in the same way as other special characters.

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