Markdown Guide

For those new to Markdown, this guide will help you become familiar with the full list of shortcuts and a few of our own additions.

Blog posts in Igorotage are written using Markdown. Markdown is a minimal syntax for marking up your documents with formatting, using punctuation and special characters. For those new to Markdown, this guide will help you become familiar with the full list of shortcuts and a few of our own additions.

Note: All HTML is valid Markdown. If you’re stuck not able to format your content how you would like (for example using tables) you can always use plain HTML instead of Markdown.

Markdown Help

The most common formatting options have keyboard shortcuts to make them easier to add:

Typography

Headers

Headers are set using a hash before the title. The number of hashes before the title text will determine the depth of the header. Header depths are from 1-6.

• H1 : # Header 1
• H2 : ## Header 2
• H3 : ### Header 3
• H4 : #### Header 4
• H5 : ##### Header 5
• H6 : ###### Header 6

Text Styling

• Links : Title
• Bold : Bold
• Italicize : Italics
• Strike-through : text
• Highlight : ==text==
• Paragraphs : Line space between paragraphs
• Line break : Add two spaces to the end of the line
• Lists : * an asterisk for every new list item.
• Quotes : > Quote
• Inline Code : alert('Hello World');
• Horizontal Rule (HR) : --------

Images

You can use the to use images from your gallery to include them with your post, or alternatively click the image icon from the editor toolbar to use external images.

Adding Alt Text

To add alt text to your image, all you need to do is place the text in-between the square brackets, e.g; ![This is a alt text]().

Examples

Link Markdown Example

This is a paragraph that contains a link to Igorotage.

List Markdown Example

This paragraph contains a list of items.

• Item 1
• Item 2
• Item three

Quote Markdown Example

This paragraph has a quote.

That is pulled out like this from the text my post.