This document summarizes the key elements of Markdown formatting including headings, lists, blockquotes, inline and code blocks, horizontal rules, emphasis, links, images, and escapable characters. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that can be converted to HTML and is often used for readme files, correspondence, and online discussions.

1. MARKDOWN packetlife.net
Headers Blockquotes
# Text <h1>Text</h1> <blockquote>
> Lorem ipsum
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</p>
## Text <h2>Text</h2> > dolor sit amet </blockquote>
### Text <h3>Text</h3> <blockquote>
> Lorem ipsum dolor
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</p>
#### Text <h4>Text</h4> sit amet </blockquote>
##### Text <h5>Text</h5> <blockquote><p>Level one</p>
> Level one
> <blockquote><p>Level two</p>
###### Text <h6>Text</h6>
<blockquote><p>Level three</p>
> > Level two
</blockquote>
Lists > > </blockquote>
<ul>
> > > Level three </blockquote>
<li>Sizes</li>
* Sizes <li>Shapes</li> Inline Code
* Shapes <li>Colors
* Colors <ul> Use `<div>` tags Use <code>&lt;div&gt;</code> tags
* Blue <li>Blue</li>
``echo `uname -a``` <code>echo `uname -a`</code>
* Green <li>Green</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
Code Blocks
<ol> Normal text <p>Normal text</p>
<li>First</li> <pre><code>
1. First <li>Second</li> #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
#include <stdio.h> </code></pre>
2. Second <li>Third
3. Third <ol>
<li>Alpha</li> Horizontal Rules
1. Alpha
2. Bravo <li>Bravo</li> * * * <hr /> - - - <hr />
</ol></li>
</ol> *** <hr /> --- <hr />
Emphasis Escapable Characters
*Emphasis* <em>Emphasis</em> Backslash ( ) Parantheses
_Emphasis_ <em>Emphasis</em> ` Backtick # Hash mark
**Strong** <strong>Strong</strong> * Asterisk + Plus sign
__Strong__ <strong>Strong</strong> _ Underscore - Hyphen
*Super*emphasis <em>Super</em>emphasis { } Curly braces . Period
**Super**strong <strong>Super</strong>strong [ ] Square brackets ! Exclamation
Links
[Google](http://google.com/) <a href="http://google.com/">Google</a>
[Google](http://google.com/ "Search") <a href="http://google.com/" title="Search">Google</a>
[google]: http://google.com/ "Search"
<a href="http://google.com/" title="Search">Google</a>
[Google][google]
<http://google.com> <a href="http://google.com/">http://google.com</a>
Images
 <img src="/path/to/img.jpg" alt="Alt text"/>
 <img src="/path/to/img.jpg" alt="Alt text" title="Title"/>
[img1]: /path/to/img.jpg "Title"
<img src="/path/to/img.jpg" alt="Alt text" title="Title"/>
![Alt text][img1]
Markdown is available at http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
by Jeremy Stretch v2.0