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typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Markdown-mark.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Markdown-mark.svg/175px-Markdown-mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="175" height="108" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Markdown-mark.svg/263px-Markdown-mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Markdown-mark.svg/350px-Markdown-mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="208" data-file-height="128" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Filename_extension" title="Filename extension">Filename extensions</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.35em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}</style><div class="monospaced"> <code>.md</code>, <code>.markdown</code><sup id="cite_ref-df-2022_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-df-2022-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-rfc7763_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rfc7763-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Media_type" title="Media type">Internet media type</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.35em;"><code>text/markdown</code><sup id="cite_ref-rfc7763_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rfc7763-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Uniform_Type_Identifier" title="Uniform Type Identifier">Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.35em;"><code>net.daringfireball.markdown</code></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Developed by</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.35em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Gruber" title="John Gruber">John Gruber</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Initial release</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.35em;">March 9, 2004<span class="noprint"> (20 years ago)</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2004-03-09</span>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-markdown-swartz_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-markdown-swartz-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-gruber-2004-release_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gruber-2004-release-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Latest release</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.35em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">1.0.1<br />December 17, 2004<span class="noprint"> (19 years ago)</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2004-12-17</span>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-md_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-md-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Type of format</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.35em;"><a href="/wiki/Open_file_format" title="Open file format">Open file format</a><sup id="cite_ref-license_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-license-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Extended to</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.35em;"><a href="/wiki/Pandoc" title="Pandoc">pandoc</a>, <a href="/wiki/MultiMarkdown" title="MultiMarkdown">MultiMarkdown</a>, <a href="/wiki/Markdown_Extra" class="mw-redirect" title="Markdown Extra">Markdown Extra</a>, <a href="#Standardization">CommonMark</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-rfc7764_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rfc7764-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/RMarkdown" class="mw-redirect" title="RMarkdown">RMarkdown</a><sup id="cite_ref-RMarkdown_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RMarkdown-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.35em;"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/">daringfireball<wbr />.net<wbr />/projects<wbr />/markdown<wbr />/</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Markdown</b><sup id="cite_ref-philosophy_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-philosophy-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a <a href="/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language" title="Lightweight markup language">lightweight markup language</a> for creating <a href="/wiki/Formatted_text" title="Formatted text">formatted text</a> using a <a href="/wiki/Text_editor" title="Text editor">plain-text editor</a>. <a href="/wiki/John_Gruber" title="John Gruber">John Gruber</a> created Markdown in 2004 as an easy-to-read <a href="/wiki/Markup_language" title="Markup language">markup language</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-philosophy_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-philosophy-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Markdown is widely used for <a href="/wiki/Blog" title="Blog">blogging</a> and <a href="/wiki/Instant_messaging" title="Instant messaging">instant messaging</a>, and also used elsewhere in <a href="/wiki/Online_forums" class="mw-redirect" title="Online forums">online forums</a>, <a href="/wiki/Collaborative_software" title="Collaborative software">collaborative software</a>, <a href="/wiki/Documentation" title="Documentation">documentation</a> pages, and <a href="/wiki/README" title="README">readme files</a>. </p><p>The initial description of Markdown<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> contained ambiguities and raised unanswered questions, causing implementations to both intentionally and accidentally diverge from the original version. This was addressed in 2014 when long-standing Markdown contributors released <a href="#Standardization">CommonMark</a>, an unambiguous specification and test suite for Markdown.<sup id="cite_ref-FutureOfMarkdown_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FutureOfMarkdown-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Markdown&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Markdown was inspired by pre-existing <a href="/wiki/Convention_(norm)" title="Convention (norm)">conventions</a> for marking up <a href="/wiki/Plain_text" title="Plain text">plain text</a> in <a href="/wiki/Email" title="Email">email</a> and <a href="/wiki/Usenet" title="Usenet">usenet</a> posts,<sup id="cite_ref-ArsTechnica2014_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ArsTechnica2014-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> such as the earlier markup languages <a href="/wiki/Setext" title="Setext">setext</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1992</span>), <a href="/wiki/Textile_(markup_language)" title="Textile (markup language)">Textile</a> (c. 2002), and <a href="/wiki/ReStructuredText" title="ReStructuredText">reStructuredText</a> (c. 2002).<sup id="cite_ref-philosophy_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-philosophy-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2002 <a href="/wiki/Aaron_Swartz" title="Aaron Swartz">Aaron Swartz</a> created <a href="/wiki/Atx_(markup_language)" class="mw-redirect" title="Atx (markup language)">atx</a> and referred to it as "the true structured text format". Gruber created the Markdown language in 2004 with Swartz as his "sounding board".<sup id="cite_ref-Gruber_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gruber-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The goal of the language was to enable people "to write using an easy-to-read and easy-to-write plain text format, optionally convert it to structurally valid <a href="/wiki/XHTML" title="XHTML">XHTML</a> (or <a href="/wiki/HTML" title="HTML">HTML</a>)".<sup id="cite_ref-md_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-md-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another key design goal was <i>readability</i>, that the language be readable as-is, without looking like it has been marked up with tags or formatting instructions,<sup id="cite_ref-philosophy_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-philosophy-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> unlike text formatted with "heavier" <a href="/wiki/Markup_language" title="Markup language">markup languages</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Rich_Text_Format" title="Rich Text Format">Rich Text Format</a> (RTF), HTML, or even <a href="/wiki/Wikitext" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikitext">wikitext</a> (each of which have obvious in-line tags and formatting instructions which can make the text more difficult for humans to read). </p><p>Gruber wrote a <a href="/wiki/Perl" title="Perl">Perl</a> script, <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">Markdown.pl</code>, which converts marked-up text input to valid, <a href="/wiki/XML#Well-formedness_and_error-handling" title="XML">well-formed</a> XHTML or HTML and replaces angle brackets (<code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr"><</code>, <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">></code>) and <a href="/wiki/Ampersand" title="Ampersand">ampersands</a> (<code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">&</code>) with their corresponding <a href="/wiki/Character_entity_references" class="mw-redirect" title="Character entity references">character entity references</a>. It can take the role of a standalone script, a plugin for <a href="/wiki/Blosxom" title="Blosxom">Blosxom</a> or a <a href="/wiki/Movable_Type" title="Movable Type">Movable Type</a>, or of a text filter for <a href="/wiki/BBEdit" title="BBEdit">BBEdit</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-md_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-md-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rise_and_divergence">Rise and divergence</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Markdown&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Rise and divergence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As Markdown's popularity grew rapidly, many Markdown <a href="/wiki/Implementation" title="Implementation">implementations</a> appeared, driven mostly by the need for additional features such as <a href="/wiki/Table_(information)" title="Table (information)">tables</a>, <a href="/wiki/Note_(typography)" title="Note (typography)">footnotes</a>, definition lists,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Markdown inside HTML blocks. </p><p>The behavior of some of these diverged from the reference implementation, as Markdown was only characterised by an informal <a href="/wiki/Specification_(technical_standard)" title="Specification (technical standard)">specification</a><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a <a href="/wiki/Perl" title="Perl">Perl</a> implementation for conversion to HTML. </p><p>At the same time, a number of ambiguities in the informal specification had attracted attention.<sup id="cite_ref-gfm_on_github-why_spec_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gfm_on_github-why_spec-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These issues spurred the creation of tools such as Babelmark<sup id="cite_ref-babelmark-2_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-babelmark-2-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-babelmark-3_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-babelmark-3-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to compare the output of various implementations,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and an effort by some developers of Markdown <a href="/wiki/Parsing" title="Parsing">parsers</a> for standardisation. However, Gruber has argued that complete standardization would be a mistake: "Different sites (and people) have different needs. No one syntax would make all happy."<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gruber avoided using curly braces in Markdown to unofficially reserve them for implementation-specific extensions.<sup id="cite_ref-curlyBraces_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-curlyBraces-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Standardization">Standardization</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Markdown&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Standardization"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox"><caption class="infobox-title" style="padding-bottom:0.15em;">CommonMark</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Markdown-mark.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Markdown-mark.svg/64px-Markdown-mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="64" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Markdown-mark.svg/96px-Markdown-mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Markdown-mark.svg/128px-Markdown-mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="208" data-file-height="128" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Filename_extension" title="Filename extension">Filename extensions</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.35em;"><code>.md</code>, <code>.markdown</code><sup id="cite_ref-rfc7763_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rfc7763-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Media_type" title="Media type">Internet media type</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.35em;"><code>text/markdown; variant=CommonMark</code><sup id="cite_ref-rfc7764_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rfc7764-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Uniform_Type_Identifier" title="Uniform Type Identifier">Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.35em;"><i>uncertain</i><sup id="cite_ref-cm-uti_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-uti-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">UTI conformation</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.35em;">public.plain-text</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Developed by</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.35em;"><a href="/wiki/John_MacFarlane_(philosopher)" title="John MacFarlane (philosopher)">John MacFarlane</a>, open source</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Initial release</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.35em;">October 25, 2014<span class="noprint"> (10 years ago)</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2014-10-25</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Latest release</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.35em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">0.31.2<br />January 28, 2024<span class="noprint"> (10 months ago)</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2024-01-28</span>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-cm-spec_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cm-spec-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Type of format</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.35em;"><a href="/wiki/Open_file_format" title="Open file format">Open file format</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Extended from</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.35em;">Markdown</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Extended to</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.35em;">GitHub Flavored Markdown</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.35em;"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://commonmark.org/">commonmark<wbr />.org</a></span> <span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://spec.commonmark.org/">spec<wbr />.commonmark<wbr />.org</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>From 2012, a group of people, including <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Atwood" title="Jeff Atwood">Jeff Atwood</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_MacFarlane_(philosopher)" title="John MacFarlane (philosopher)">John MacFarlane</a>, launched what Atwood characterised as a standardisation effort.<sup id="cite_ref-FutureOfMarkdown_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FutureOfMarkdown-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A community website now aims to "document various tools and resources available to document authors and developers, as well as implementors of the various Markdown implementations".<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 2014, Gruber objected to the usage of "Markdown" in the name of this effort and it was rebranded as CommonMark.<sup id="cite_ref-ArsTechnica2014_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ArsTechnica2014-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> CommonMark.org published several versions of a specification, reference implementation, test suite, and "[plans] to announce a finalized 1.0 spec and test suite in 2019".<sup id="cite_ref-commonmark.org_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-commonmark.org-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>No 1.0 spec has since been released, as major issues still remain unsolved.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Nonetheless, the following websites and projects have adopted CommonMark: <a href="/wiki/Discourse_(software)" title="Discourse (software)">Discourse</a>, <a href="/wiki/GitHub" title="GitHub">GitHub</a>, <a href="/wiki/GitLab" title="GitLab">GitLab</a>, <a href="/wiki/Reddit" title="Reddit">Reddit</a>, <a href="/wiki/Qt_(software)" title="Qt (software)">Qt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stack_Exchange" title="Stack Exchange">Stack Exchange</a> (<a href="/wiki/Stack_Overflow" title="Stack Overflow">Stack Overflow</a>), and <a href="/wiki/Swift_(programming_language)" title="Swift (programming language)">Swift</a>. </p><p>In March 2016, two relevant informational Internet <a href="/wiki/Request_for_Comments" title="Request for Comments">RFCs</a> were published: </p> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style>RFC <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7763">7763</a> introduced <a href="/wiki/MIME" title="MIME">MIME</a> type <small><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">text/markdown</code></small>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222">RFC <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7764">7764</a> discussed and registered the variants <a href="/wiki/MultiMarkdown" title="MultiMarkdown">MultiMarkdown</a>, GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM), <a href="/wiki/Pandoc" title="Pandoc">Pandoc</a>, and Markdown Extra among others.<sup id="cite_ref-IANA_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IANA-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Variants">Variants</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Markdown&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Variants"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Websites like <a href="/wiki/Bitbucket" title="Bitbucket">Bitbucket</a>, <a href="/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network)" title="Diaspora (social network)">Diaspora</a>, <a href="/wiki/GitHub" title="GitHub">GitHub</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-gfm_on_github_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gfm_on_github-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/OpenStreetMap" title="OpenStreetMap">OpenStreetMap</a>, <a href="/wiki/Reddit" title="Reddit">Reddit</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/SourceForge" title="SourceForge">SourceForge</a><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Stack_Exchange" title="Stack Exchange">Stack Exchange</a><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> use variants of Markdown to make discussions between users easier. </p><p>Depending on implementation, basic inline <a href="/wiki/HTML_tag" class="mw-redirect" title="HTML tag">HTML tags</a> may be supported.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Italic text may be implemented by <code>_underscores_</code> or <code>*single-asterisks*</code>.<sup id="cite_ref-italic_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-italic-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="GitHub_Flavored_Markdown">GitHub Flavored Markdown</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Markdown&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: GitHub Flavored Markdown"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>GitHub had been using its own variant of Markdown since as early as 2009,<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which added support for additional formatting such as tables and nesting <a href="/wiki/HTML_element#Block_elements" title="HTML element">block content</a> inside list elements, as well as GitHub-specific features such as auto-linking references to commits, issues, usernames, etc. </p><p>In 2017, GitHub released a formal specification of its GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) that is based on CommonMark.<sup id="cite_ref-gfm_on_github_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gfm_on_github-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is a <a href="/wiki/Superset" class="mw-redirect" title="Superset">strict superset</a> of CommonMark, following its specification exactly except for tables, <a href="/wiki/Strikethrough" title="Strikethrough">strikethrough</a>, <a href="/wiki/Automatic_hyperlinking" title="Automatic hyperlinking">autolinks</a> and task lists, which GFM adds as extensions.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Accordingly, GitHub also changed the parser used on their sites, which required that some documents be changed. For instance, GFM now requires that the <a href="/wiki/Number_sign" title="Number sign">hash symbol</a> that creates a heading be separated from the heading text by a space character. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Markdown_Extra">Markdown Extra</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Markdown&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Markdown Extra"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Markdown Extra is a <a href="/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language" title="Lightweight markup language">lightweight markup language</a> based on Markdown implemented in <a href="/wiki/PHP" title="PHP">PHP</a> (originally), <a href="/wiki/Python_(programming_language)" title="Python (programming language)">Python</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ruby_(programming_language)" title="Ruby (programming language)">Ruby</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-fortin-2018_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fortin-2018-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It adds the following features that are not available with regular Markdown: </p> <ul><li>Markdown markup inside <a href="/wiki/HTML" title="HTML">HTML</a> blocks</li> <li>Elements with id/class attribute</li> <li>"Fenced code blocks" that span multiple lines of code</li> <li>Tables<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Definition lists</li> <li>Footnotes</li> <li>Abbreviations</li></ul> <p>Markdown Extra is supported in some <a href="/wiki/Content_management_system" title="Content management system">content management systems</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Drupal" title="Drupal">Drupal</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Grav_(CMS)" title="Grav (CMS)">Grav (CMS)</a> and <a href="/wiki/TYPO3" title="TYPO3">TYPO3</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="LiaScript">LiaScript</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Markdown&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: LiaScript"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>LiaScript<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a Markdown dialect that was designed to create interactive educational content. It is implemented in <a href="/wiki/Elm_(programming_language)" title="Elm (programming language)">Elm</a> and <a href="/wiki/TypeScript" title="TypeScript">TypeScript</a> and adds additional syntax elements to define features like: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Animation" title="Animation">Animations</a></li> <li>Automatic <a href="/wiki/Speech_synthesis" title="Speech synthesis">speech output</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula" title="Formula">Mathematical formulas</a> (using <a href="/wiki/KaTeX" title="KaTeX">KaTeX</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/ASCII_art" title="ASCII art">ASCII art</a> diagrams</li> <li>Various types of <a href="/wiki/Quiz" title="Quiz">quizzes</a> and surveys</li> <li><a href="/wiki/JavaScript" title="JavaScript">JavaScript</a> is natively supported and can be attached to various elements, this way code fragments can be made executable and editable</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Examples">Examples</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Markdown&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Examples"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th width="33%">Text using Markdown syntax </th> <th width="34%">Corresponding HTML produced by a Markdown processor </th> <th width="33%">Text viewed in a browser </th></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-md mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="gh">Heading</span> <span class="gh">=======</span> <span class="gu">Sub-heading</span> <span class="gu">-----------</span> <span class="gh"># Alternative heading</span> <span class="gu">## Alternative sub-heading</span> Paragraphs are separated by a blank line. Two spaces at the end of a line produce a line break. </pre></div> </td> <td> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-html mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">h1</span><span class="p">></span>Heading<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">h1</span><span class="p">></span> <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">h2</span><span class="p">></span>Sub-heading<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">h2</span><span class="p">></span> <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">h1</span><span class="p">></span>Alternative heading<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">h1</span><span class="p">></span> <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">h2</span><span class="p">></span>Alternative sub-heading<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">h2</span><span class="p">></span> <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">></span>Paragraphs are separated by a blank line.<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">></span> <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">></span>Two spaces at the end of a line<span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">br</span> <span class="p">/></span> produce a line break.<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">></span> </pre></div> </td> <td><div style="overflow: hidden; page-break-after: avoid; font-size: 1.8em; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.25em; line-height: 1.3; padding: 0; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAAAAA;">Heading</div> <div style="overflow: hidden; page-break-after: avoid; font-size: 1.5em; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.25em; line-height: 1.3; padding: 0; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAAAAA;">Sub-heading</div> <div style="overflow: hidden; page-break-after: avoid; font-size: 1.8em; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.25em; line-height: 1.3; padding: 0; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAAAAA;">Alternative heading</div> <div style="overflow: hidden; page-break-after: avoid; font-size: 1.5em; font-family: Georgia,Times,serif; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.25em; line-height: 1.3; padding: 0; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAAAAA;">Alternative sub-heading</div> <p>Paragraphs are separated by a blank line. </p><p>Two spaces at the end of a line<br /> produce a line break. </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td><div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-md mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span>Text attributes <span class="ge">_italic_</span>, <span class="gs">**bold**</span>, <span class="sb">`monospace`</span>. Horizontal rule: --- </pre></div> </td> <td> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-html mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">></span>Text attributes <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">em</span><span class="p">></span>italic<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">em</span><span class="p">></span>, <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">strong</span><span class="p">></span>bold<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">strong</span><span class="p">></span>, <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">code</span><span class="p">></span>monospace<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">code</span><span class="p">></span>.<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">></span> <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">></span>Horizontal rule:<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">></span> <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">hr</span> <span class="p">/></span> </pre></div> </td> <td>Text attributes <i>italic</i>, <b>bold</b>, <code>monospace</code>.<p class="mw-empty-elt"></p> <p>Horizontal rule: </p> <hr /> </td></tr> <tr> <td><div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-md mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span>Bullet lists nested within numbered list: <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">1.</span> fruits <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">*</span><span class="w"> </span>apple <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">*</span><span class="w"> </span>banana <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">2.</span> vegetables <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">-</span><span class="w"> </span>carrot <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">-</span><span class="w"> </span>broccoli </pre></div> </td> <td> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-html mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">></span>Bullet lists nested within numbered list:<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">></span> <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">ol</span><span class="p">></span> <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">li</span><span class="p">></span>fruits <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">ul</span><span class="p">></span> <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">li</span><span class="p">></span>apple<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">li</span><span class="p">></span> <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">li</span><span class="p">></span>banana<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">li</span><span class="p">></span> <span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">ul</span><span class="p">></</span><span class="nt">li</span><span class="p">></span> <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">li</span><span class="p">></span>vegetables <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">ul</span><span class="p">></span> <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">li</span><span class="p">></span>carrot<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">li</span><span class="p">></span> <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">li</span><span class="p">></span>broccoli<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">li</span><span class="p">></span> <span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">ul</span><span class="p">></</span><span class="nt">li</span><span class="p">></span> <span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">ol</span><span class="p">></span> </pre></div> </td> <td>Bullet lists nested within numbered list: <ol><li>fruits <ul><li>apple</li> <li>banana</li></ul></li> <li>vegetables <ul><li>carrot</li> <li>broccoli</li></ul></li></ol> </td></tr> <tr> <td><div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-md mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span>A [<span class="nt">link</span>](<span class="na">http://example.com</span>). ![<span class="nt">Image</span>](<span class="na">Icon-pictures.png "icon"</span>) <span class="k">> </span><span class="ge">Markdown uses email-style</span> characters for blockquoting. <span class="k">></span> <span class="ge">> Multiple paragraphs need to be prepended individually.</span> Most inline <abbr title="Hypertext Markup Language">HTML</abbr> tags are supported. </pre></div> </td> <td> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-html mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">></span>A <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">a</span> <span class="na">href</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"http://example.com"</span><span class="p">></span>link<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">a</span><span class="p">></span>.<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">></span> <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">><</span><span class="nt">img</span> <span class="na">alt</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"Image"</span> <span class="na">title</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"icon"</span> <span class="na">src</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"Icon-pictures.png"</span> <span class="p">/></</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">></span> <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">blockquote</span><span class="p">></span> <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">></span>Markdown uses email-style characters for blockquoting.<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">></span> <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">></span>Multiple paragraphs need to be prepended individually.<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">></span> <span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">blockquote</span><span class="p">></span> <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">></span>Most inline <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">abbr</span> <span class="na">title</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">"Hypertext Markup Language"</span><span class="p">></span>HTML<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">abbr</span><span class="p">></span> tags are supported.<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">p</span><span class="p">></span> </pre></div> </td> <td>A <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://example.com/">link</a>. <p><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="icon"><img alt="Image" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Icon-pictures.png" decoding="async" width="65" height="59" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="65" data-file-height="59" /></span></span> </p> <blockquote> <p>Markdown uses email-style characters for blockquoting. </p><p>Multiple paragraphs need to be prepended individually. </p> </blockquote> <p>Most inline <abbr title="Hypertext Markup Language">HTML</abbr> tags are supported. </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Implementations">Implementations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Markdown&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Implementations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Implementations of Markdown are available for over a dozen <a href="/wiki/Programming_language" title="Programming language">programming languages</a>; in addition, many <a href="/wiki/Application_software" title="Application software">applications</a>, platforms and <a href="/wiki/Software_framework" title="Software framework">frameworks</a> support Markdown.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, Markdown <a href="/wiki/Plug-in_(computing)" title="Plug-in (computing)">plugins</a> exist for every major <a href="/wiki/Blog" title="Blog">blogging</a> platform.<sup id="cite_ref-ArsTechnica2014_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ArsTechnica2014-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While Markdown is a minimal markup language and is read and edited with a normal <a href="/wiki/Text_editor" title="Text editor">text editor</a>, there are specially designed editors that preview the files with styles, which are available for all major platforms. Many general-purpose text and <a href="/wiki/Source-code_editor" title="Source-code editor">code editors</a> have <a href="/wiki/Syntax_highlighting" title="Syntax highlighting">syntax highlighting</a> plugins for Markdown built into them or available as optional download. Editors may feature a side-by-side preview window or render the code directly in a <a href="/wiki/WYSIWYG" title="WYSIWYG">WYSIWYG</a> fashion. </p><p>Some apps, services and editors support Markdown as an editing format, including: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bugzilla" title="Bugzilla">Bugzilla</a> uses a customized version of Markdown.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ChatGPT" title="ChatGPT">ChatGPT</a>: Output from the LLM formatted in Markdown will be rendered in LaTeX and HTML by the ChatGPT client, and the model is encouraged to use Markdown to format its output. Markdown provided by the user will not be formatted by the client, but will still be passed to the model unaltered.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Discord_(software)" class="mw-redirect" title="Discord (software)">Discord</a>: chat messages<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Discourse_(software)" title="Discourse (software)">Discourse</a> uses the CommonMark flavor of Markdown in the forum post composer.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doxygen" title="Doxygen">Doxygen</a>: a source code documentation generator which supports Markdown with extra features<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GitHub" title="GitHub">GitHub</a> Flavored Markdown (GFM) ignores underscores in words, and adds <a href="/wiki/Syntax_highlighting" title="Syntax highlighting">syntax highlighting</a>, <a href="/wiki/Task_list" class="mw-redirect" title="Task list">task lists</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and tables<sup id="cite_ref-gfm_on_github_32-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gfm_on_github-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/GNOME_Evolution" title="GNOME Evolution">GNOME Evolution</a> email client supports composing messages in Markdown format,<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with the ability to send and render emails in pure Markdown format (<code>Content-Type: text/markdown;</code>) or to convert Markdown to <a href="/wiki/Plaintext" title="Plaintext">plaintext</a> or <a href="/wiki/HTML_email" title="HTML email">HTML email</a> when sending.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joplin_(software)" title="Joplin (software)">Joplin</a>: a note-taking application that supports markdown formatting<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/JotterPad" title="JotterPad">JotterPad</a>: an online WYSIWYG editor that supports Markdown and Fountain<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanboard" title="Kanboard">Kanboard</a> uses the standard Markdown syntax as its only formatting syntax for task descriptions.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Azure_DevOps" class="mw-redirect" title="Microsoft Azure DevOps">Microsoft Azure DevOps</a>' wiki feature supports both common Markdown conventions and GitHub Flavored Markdown<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Teams" title="Microsoft Teams">Microsoft Teams</a>: chat messages<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Misskey" title="Misskey">Misskey</a>, its numerous forks and other <a href="/wiki/Fediverse" title="Fediverse">Fediverse</a> platforms such as <a href="/wiki/Akkoma" class="mw-redirect" title="Akkoma">Akkoma</a><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> use a custom text format misleadingly called "Misskey-Flavored Markdown (MFM)", with support for standard nestable block quotes <code>></code> and inline emphasis <code>_*`</code> as well as extensions seen elsewhere for <code>@</code> mentions, <code>#</code> tags, custom <a href="/wiki/Emoji" title="Emoji">emoji</a> <code>:foo:</code>, automatic URL detection and toggleable link target preview, but no support for headings, lists, reference links and other standard Markdown features. It supports a handful of HTML-like tags (<code><small> <center> <plain></code>) and a special notation with English keywords or key-value pairs <code>$[<i>key=value</i> <i>content</i>]</code> for spans with stylistic effects applied, e.g. fonts, blurs, borders and transformations such as flipping, shifting, rotating, scaling and animation, but also for <a href="/wiki/Furigana" title="Furigana">furigana</a> and search boxes.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The message format of such <a href="/wiki/ActivityPub" title="ActivityPub">ActivityPub</a> objects that can be consumed as messages is <code>text/x.misskeymarkdown</code>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird" title="Mozilla Thunderbird">Mozilla Thunderbird</a> email client supports Markdown through the "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/markdown-here-revival/">Markdown here Revival</a>" add-on.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nextcloud" title="Nextcloud">Nextcloud Notes</a>: the default app for taking notes on the Nextcloud platform supports formatting using Markdown<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Obsidian_(software)" title="Obsidian (software)">Obsidian</a> is note-taking software based on Markdown files.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RMarkdown" class="mw-redirect" title="RMarkdown">RMarkdown</a><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RStudio" title="RStudio">RStudio</a>: an <a href="/wiki/Integrated_development_environment" title="Integrated development environment">IDE</a> for <a href="/wiki/R_(programming_language)" title="R (programming language)">R</a>. It provides a <a href="/wiki/C%2B%2B" title="C++">C++</a> <a href="/wiki/Wrapper_function" title="Wrapper function">wrapper function</a> for a markdown variant called sundown<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simplenote" title="Simplenote">Simplenote</a><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Markdown&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_document_markup_languages" title="Comparison of document markup languages">Comparison of document markup languages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_documentation_generators" title="Comparison of documentation generators">Comparison of documentation generators</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language" title="Lightweight markup language">Lightweight markup language</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wiki_markup" class="mw-redirect" title="Wiki markup">Wiki markup</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Explanatory_notes">Explanatory notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Markdown&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Explanatory notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Technically HTML description lists</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Markdown&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-df-2022-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-df-2022_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGruber,_John2014" class="citation web cs1">Gruber, John (8 January 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/01/08/markdown-extension">"The Markdown File Extension"</a>. The Daring Fireball Company, LLC. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200712120733/https://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/01/08/markdown-extension">Archived</a> from the original on 12 July 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">27 March</span> 2022</span>. <q>Too late now, I suppose, but the only file extension I would endorse is ".markdown", for the same reason offered by Hilton Lipschitz: <i>We no longer live in a 8.3 world, so we should be using the most descriptive file extensions. It's sad that all our operating systems rely on this stupid convention instead of the better creator code or a metadata model, but great that they now support longer file extensions.</i></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Markdown+File+Extension&rft.pub=The+Daring+Fireball+Company%2C+LLC&rft.date=2014-01-08&rft.au=Gruber%2C+John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdaringfireball.net%2Flinked%2F2014%2F01%2F08%2Fmarkdown-extension&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarkdown" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-rfc7763-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-rfc7763_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-rfc7763_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-rfc7763_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLeonard,_Sean2016" class="citation journal cs1">Leonard, Sean (March 2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7763">"The text/markdown Media Type"</a>. <i>Request for Comments: 7763</i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">27 March</span> 2022</span>. <q>This document registers the text/markdown media type for use with Markdown, a family of plain-text formatting syntaxes that optionally can be converted to formal markup languages such as HTML.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Request+for+Comments%3A+7763&rft.atitle=The+text%2Fmarkdown+Media+Type&rft.date=2016-03&rft.au=Leonard%2C+Sean&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdatatracker.ietf.org%2Fdoc%2Fhtml%2Frfc7763&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarkdown" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-markdown-swartz-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-markdown-swartz_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSwartz2004" class="citation web cs1"><a href="/wiki/Aaron_Swartz" title="Aaron Swartz">Swartz, Aaron</a> (2004-03-19). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001189">"Markdown"</a>. <i>Aaron Swartz: The Weblog</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171224200232/http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001189">Archived</a> from the original on 2017-12-24<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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