Afour Sample User Documentation
  • Introduction
  • Getting Started
    • Value Proposition
    • Documenting tools
    • Video tools
    • Graphic tools
  • Document structure
    • Document types
    • Types of Program Documentation
    • Who Writes the Documentation?
  • Miscellaneous
    • Guide Strategy
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This Markdown cheat sheet provides a quick overview of all the Markdown syntax elements. It can’t cover every edge case, so if you need more information about any of these elements, refer to the refer

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Markdown Cheat Sheet

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This Markdown cheat sheet provides a quick overview of all the Markdown syntax elements. It can’t cover every edge case, so if you need more information about any of these elements, refer to the reference guides for and .

Basic Syntax

These are the elements outlined in John Gruber’s original design document. All Markdown applications support these elements.

Heading

H1

H2

H3

Bold

bold text

Italic

italicized text

Blockquote

blockquote

Ordered List

  1. First item

  2. Second item

  3. Third item

Unordered List

  • First item

  • Second item

  • Third item

Code

code

Horizontal Rule


Link

Image

Extended Syntax

These elements extend the basic syntax by adding additional features. Not all Markdown applications support these elements.

Table

Syntax
Description

Header

Title

Paragraph

Text

Fenced Code Block

{
  "firstName": "John",
  "lastName": "Smith",
  "age": 25
}

Footnote

Here's a sentence with a footnote. [^1]

[^1]: This is the footnote.

Heading ID

My Great Heading

Definition List

term : definition

Strikethrough

The world is flat.

Task List

Emoji

Highlight

I need to highlight these ==very important words==.

Subscript

H2O

Superscript

X^2^

alt text

That is so funny!

(See also )

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The Markdown Guide
basic syntax
extended syntax
Markdown Guide
Copying and Pasting Emoji