Markdown

Markdown syntax is commonly used in content management systems. By abbreviating some HTML, markdown makes it easier to read and proof the input content. For markup not covered by markdown syntax, like tables, images, iframes and videos, use HTML.

Headers use one to three hash characters at the beginning of the line corresponding to header levels one through three. For example:

#This is an H1

##This is an H2

###This is an H3

Paragraphs, which are separated with a blank line, use two returns at the end.

New lines
without a blank line
in between them
use two spaces
at the end of the line.

*Italic* text is surrounded by single asterisks without blank spaces.

**Bold** text is surrounded by double asterisks without blank spaces.

For links to web resources, the anchor text is delimited by [square brackets] immediately followed by the link inside (parentheses).

[This link](http://example.net/) is for a web page.

This link, [John Doe](mailto:john.doe@example.net), is for an email address.

This link, [(123) 456-7890](tel:1234567890), is for a telephone number.

Markdown supports blockquotes, unordered bullet and ordered number lists.

Blockquotes use a greater-than sign followed by a space:

> Indented text.

Unordered lists use a dash followed by a space:

- Red
- Green
- Blue

Ordered lists use a number followed by a period and a space:

1. Bird
2. McHale
3. Parish

It's important to note it's possible to trigger an ordered list by accident, by writing something like this:

1986. What a great season.

To avoid the result, escape the period with two preceding backslashes:

1986\\. What a great season.

Markdown provides backslash escapes for the characters below, which all can have an interpreted meaning within markdown depending upon where they occur. See the full markdown documentation for more information. When one of the characters is interpreted but is supposed to be as typed, then add two backslashes before the character, \\(example\\).

\ backslash

` backtick

* asterisk

_ underscore

{} curly braces

[] square brackets

() parentheses

> greater than

# hash mark

+ plus sign

- minus sign (hyphen)

. dot

! exclamation mark

Tables and images cannot be entered with markdown but must be entered with HTML. Images are sized in the style sheet, not with specific pixel dimensions in the HTML. Specific to Online News Site, a few style classes exist for sizing images, wide, lead2, lead3, lead4. The class wide is for full-width images where the text will appear above and below the image. The smaller lead classes create smaller images for text wrapped to the right of the image. The smallest images, lead4, are thumbnails. The image class border puts a border around the image. Here are examples beginning with full-width image with a border, classes wide and border.