# Markdown
|  | **Markdown** is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber created Markdown in 2004 as a markup language that is easy to read in its source code form. Markdown is widely used for blogging and instant messaging, and also used elsewhere in online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files. |
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url:: [Daring Fireball Markdown](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/)
## Flavors
- Slack doesn’t support true Markdown
- [[Trello]] Markdown
- https://help.trello.com/article/821-using-markdown-in-trello
- iAWriter
- https://ia.net/writer/support/general/markdown-guide
- CommonMark
- https://spec.commonmark.org
- GitHub Markdown
- Collapsible Sections
- https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/
- StackOverflow Markdown
- https://stackoverflow.com/editing-help
- Python Markdown Converter Thing
- https://python-markdown.github.io
- MultiMarkdown
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiMarkdown
- TaskPaper style functionality
- e.g. Editorial iOS app supports task paper functionality
- Labels, checkboxes, etc.
- [[Codex/Tech/Obsidian]] markdown
- [[Argdown]]
## Syntax
### Code Blocks
[Prism](https://prismjs.com/#supported-languages)
```js
console.log("hello")
```
#### Nested Code Blocks
An admonition, which as 4 backticks
````ad-note
```git
+ print("hello")
- print("world")
```
~~~python
print("hello world")
~~~
````
### Tables
| Column1 | Column 2 |
| ------- | -------- |
| Value 1 | Value 2 |
| Value 3 | Value 4 |
#### With resized image (escape the `|`)
| Column1 | Column 2 |
| ------- | -------- |
| Value 1 | Value 2 |
| Value 3 | Value 4 |
|  | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. |
#### Single-row Table (Put the values as if they were column titles)
|  | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. |
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#### Single-row Table in a Callout (needs a blank > line above the table)
> [!note]+ The Gist
>
> |  | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. |
> |-|-|
### Multiple lines in one cell
|  | Study of general and fundamental questions <br><br> wikipedia:: [Philosophy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy) |
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## Blockquotes
> This is blockquote text
> This is the second line of text
### Nested/indented Blockquotes
> This is blockquote text
> This is the second line of text
>> This is nested blockquotes content
## Linebreaks
Markdown normally doesn't render linebreaks when doing normal returns. But you can force them if you end the line with 2 spaces.
## Tools
- [[Obsidian]]
- Importer official plugin
- [[Typora]]
- [[Folding Text]]
- [[nvUltra]]
- [[Markdown Service Tools]]
- [[Browser Extension]]
- [[MarkDownload]]
- [[Web app]]s where you paste in the text
- [[PopClip]]
- [[Pandoc]]
- [[Turndown]]
- [Open Source Wikipedia To Markdown Generator | Software | Blog | Eric David Smith](https://ericdavidsmith.com/blog/software/open-source-wikipedia-to-markdown-generator)
- [Convert HTML Table to Markdown Table - Table Convert Online](https://tableconvert.com/html-to-markdown)
### How to convert between Markdown and HTML
- [[Pandoc#Convert HTML to Markdown - clipboard]]
- [Home · Table to Markdown](https://tabletomarkdown.com/) - good - worked with Wikipedia table
- [Try pandoc!](https://pandoc.org/try/) - online in browser instance of [[Pandoc]]
- [[Markdown Service Tools]]
- [[PopClip]]
- [[MarkDownload]]
- [[Codex/Tech/Obsidian]] option to auto convert html - toggle in settings which I normally have off - worked once when nothing else did!