Markdown Guide

11/10/2019

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Introduction

Markdown and Mdx parsing is supported via unified, and other remark and rehype packages. next-mdx-remote allows us to parse .mdx and .md files in a more flexible manner without touching webpack.

Github flavored markdown is used. mdx-prism provides syntax highlighting capabilities for code blocks. Here's a demo of how everything looks.

The following markdown cheatsheet is adapted from: https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/

What is Markdown?

Markdown is a way to style text on the web. You control the display of the document; formatting words as bold or italic, adding images, and creating lists are just a few of the things we can do with Markdown. Mostly, Markdown is just regular text with a few non-alphabetic characters thrown in, like # or *.

Syntax guide

Here’s an overview of Markdown syntax that you can use anywhere on GitHub.com or in your own text files.

Headers

Markdown
# This is a h1 tag
 
## This is a h2 tag
 
### This is a h3 tag
 
#### This is a h4 tag

This is a h1 tag

This is a h2 tag

This is a h3 tag

This is a h4 tag

Emphasis

Markdown
_This text will be italic_
 
**This text will be bold**
 
_You **can** combine them_

This text will be italic

This text will be bold

You can combine them

Lists

Unordered

Markdown
- Item 1
- Item 2
  - Item 2a
  - Item 2b
  • Item 1
  • Item 2
    • Item 2a
    • Item 2b

Ordered

Markdown
1. Item 1
1. Item 2
1. Item 3
   1. Item 3a
   1. Item 3b
  1. Item 1
  2. Item 2
  3. Item 3
    1. Item 3a
    2. Item 3b

Images

Markdown
![GitHub Logo](https://github.githubassets.com/images/modules/logos_page/GitHub-Mark.png)
Format: ![Alt Text](url)
Github Logo

Github Logo

Markdown
http://github.com - automatic!
[GitHub](http://github.com)

http://github.com - automatic! GitHub

Blockquotes

Markdown
As Kanye West said:
 
> We're living the future so
> the present is our past.

As Kanye West said:

We're living the future so the present is our past.

Inline code

Markdown
I think you should use an
`<addr>` element here instead.

I think you should use an <addr> element here instead.

Syntax highlighting

Here’s an example of how you can use syntax highlighting with GitHub Flavored Markdown:

Markdown
```js title="fancyAlert.js"
function fancyAlert(arg) {
  if (arg) {
    $.facebox({ div: "#foo" });
  }
}
```

And here's how it looks - nicely colored with styled code titles!

fancyAlert.js
JavaScript
function fancyAlert(arg) {
  if (arg) {
    $.facebox({ div: "#foo" });
  }
}

Task Lists

Markdown
- [x] list syntax required (any unordered or ordered list supported)
- [x] this is a complete item
- [ ] this is an incomplete item

Tables

You can create tables by assembling a list of words and dividing them with hyphens - (for the first row), and then separating each column with a pipe |:

Markdown
| First Header                | Second Header                |
| --------------------------- | ---------------------------- |
| Content from cell 1         | Content from cell 2          |
| Content in the first column | Content in the second column |
First HeaderSecond Header
Content from cell 1.Content from cell 2.
Content in the first column.PContent in the second column.

Strikethrough

Any word wrapped with two tildes (like ~~this~~) will appear crossed out.