Behold: a little cheat sheet for Markdown-based formatting.

Markdown HTML Output
# Heading 1 <h1>Heading 1<\h1>

Heading 1

## Heading 2 <h2>Heading 2<\h2>

Heading 2

### Heading 3 <h3>Heading 3<\h3>

Heading 3

**bold** <strong>bold<\strong> bold
*italic* <em>italic<\em> italic
~~strikethrough~~ <s>strikethrough<\s> strikethrough
[link](url) <a href="url">link<\a> link
`code` <code>code<\code> code
* First item
* Second item
* Third item
<ul>
 <li>First item<\li>
 <li>Second item<\li>
 <li>Third item<\li>
<ul>
  • First item
  • Second item
  • Third item
1. First item
2. Second item
3. Third item
<ol>
 <li>First item<\li>
 <li>Second item<\li>
 <li>Third item<\li>
<ol>
  1. First item
  2. Second item
  3. Third item
> Blockquote <blockquote>
 <p>Blockquote<\p>
<\blockquote>

Blockquote