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All About Markdown

Q1.) What is Markdown?

Markdown is a markup language, used to format text for various web sites.

Q2.) Why do we use Markdown?

Markdown is useful because it is widely applicable to a wide variety of functions. It is also portable, and can be opened by almost any application.

Q3.) What symbol will create a heading in Markdown?

The # symbol is used to create a new heading in Markdown.

Q4.) How many do you need to create the largest heading?

To create the largest heading, only one # should be used.

Q5.) How many do you need to create the smallest heading?

To create the smallest possible heading, 6 consecutive #s (######) should be used.

Q6.) When making text bold or italicized for emphasis, it is best practice to use which symbol?

It is best practice to use text or text for bold and text or text for italics.

Q7.) How do you create a link with Markdown?

A link in markdown is created by putting the related text inside square brackets, immediately followed by the link in parenthesis. Like this

Q8.) What are the three symbols you can use to create an unordered (bulleted) list with Markdown?

You can create an unordered list using either +, -, or *

+Example 1

-Example 2

*Example 3