Markdown

What is it?

Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting syntax. It's relatively easy to learn and use, and displays well on GitHub; versions of it are also used in Slack, Trello and Jira, among others. This documentation is written using it. It's worth learning, if you haven't already.

There's a great tutorial on the Commonmark website.

More reading

• markdowntutorial.com
• GitHub markdown cheatsheet
• MarkdownLivePreview.com
• Trello markdown cheatsheet
• Jira markdown cheatsheet
• Slack markdown cheatsheet

Guidebook

The CivicActions guidebook is written in markdown. You can find more information about that on this guidebook Markdown page.

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This page was last updated on August 8, 2023.