Markdown

Question 1

Create a heading (level 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6)

Answer 1

Start the line with 1 to 6 ‘#’ characters to represent headings level 1 to 6

Question 2

Create a paragraph

Answer 2

Start the paragraph with a blank line

Question 3

Force a line break

Answer 3

End a line with two spaces

Question 4

Create italic words

Answer 4

Surround the text with * or _.

Example: Both of the words zig and zag are italicized.

Question 5

Create bold words

Answer 5

Surround the text with ** or __

Example: Both of the words zig and __zag__ are bold.

Question 6

Create underlined words

Answer 6

You cannot.

Don’t use underlined words since they will look like links.

Question 7

Create strike-through words

Answer 7

Surround the text with ~~

Example: Both of the words ~~zig~~ and ~~zag~~ are crossed out.

Question 8

create a numbered (ordered) list

Answer 8

Type the numbers followed by a period at the start of the line

You can use 1. on every line to make editing simpler. The numbers will be updated correctly on the HTML result.

Question 9

Create a bulletted (unordered) list

Answer 9

Start the line with dash (-)

Plus (+) and asterist (*) work the same

Question 10

Create an outline (or nested lists)

Answer 10

Indent sub-list lines with three spaces (or more)

Question 11

Create a link

Answer 11

Place the link’s visible text in square brackets immediately followed by the URL in parentheses.

Example: Google

Question 12

Specify pop-up text for a link

Answer 12

Place the pop-up text in quotes after the link’s URL.

Example: Google

Question 13

Show an image

Answer 13

Place the image URL in parentheses after an exclamation point and square brackets.

Example:

Question 14

Show a block of code

Answer 14

Put 3 backticks on a line before and after the code.

Alternatively, indent the block with four spaces

Question 15

Apply syntax coloring to a block of code

Answer 15

Put the name of the language after the 3 backticks before the block of code.

Question 16

Create words with a fixed-width font

Answer 16

Surround the text with single backticks ( ` ).

Example: The term TRUE represents a 1.

Question 17

Create a horizontal dividing line on the page

Answer 17

Three underscores on a single line will render as a horizontal rule.

Alternatively, you can use three asterisks or three dashes.

Question 18

Show a URL as a link

Answer 18

Surround the URL with angle brackets.

Example:

Question 19

Show a character that normally would be part of a rendering command?

Answer 19

You can escape a character with a backslash character.

Question 20

Create a table

Answer 20

Separate row cell contents with vertical bars ( | )

Separate rows with new lines

Question 21

Create a row heading on a table

Answer 21

Create a heading seperator row that contains dashes in each cell.

Question 22

Align table columns (left, center, or right)

Answer 22

Use colons in the heading separator row to align columns.
Left align with :–
Center align with :–:
Right align with –:

Question 23

Insert comments that are not rendered

Answer 23

Markdown does not support comments