If your Markdown application supports HTML, you should be able to embed a video in your Markdown file by copying and pasting the HTML code provided by a video website like YouTube or Vimeo. The rendered output looks like this: Table of Contents You can separate paragraphs within a table cell by using one or more HTML tags. But there are workarounds for at least two common table issues: Line breaks and lists. You can’t use many Markdown syntax elements to format the text in table cells. Here’s a partial list of HTML entities for symbols:įor a complete list of available HTML entities, refer to Wikipedia’s page on HTML entities. For example, if you want to display the copyright sign (©), you can copy and paste the HTML entity for copyright ( ©) into your Markdown document. The symbol should appear as expected in the rendered output.Īlternatively, if your Markdown application supports HTML, you can use the HTML entity for whatever symbol you want to use. For example, if you need to display Pi (π), just find the symbol on a webpage and copy and paste it into your document. However, in most cases, you can copy and paste whatever symbol you want to use into your Markdown document. Markdown doesn’t provide special syntax for symbols. So if you stick four instances of before a paragraph, the paragraph will look like it’s indented four spaces. Basically, every in your Markdown source will be replaced with a space in the rendered output. This should probably be your option of last resort as it can get awkward. It also provides template customization options so that you can make the rendered document look the way you expect it to, indentation and all.Īnother option, if your Markdown processor supports HTML, is to use the HTML entity for non-breaking space ( ). For example, iA Writer allows you to customize indentation settings for the editor in the application preferences. This is common in applications that are more oriented towards desktop publishing. Your best bet might be to use a Markdown editor that supports indentation.
But what if you need to indent a paragraph the old-fashioned way, using the tab key? Markdown doesn’t provide an easy way of doing that. You can use trailing whitespace to create line breaks, and you can use tabs to create code blocks. Tabs and whitespace have a special meaning in Markdown. You will need to finish with another line of three backticks.Some of these words will be underlined.
This signals to markdown that you are creating a code block. To achieve this, start your block with a line of three backticks. Code blocks allow you to use multiple lines, and markdown will render it inside its own box and with code type font. To write longer or more detailed snippets of code, it is often better to place them inside a code block. More information on the location of the backtick on international keyboards is provided below.įor instance, writing `()` in markdown will render as (). On a standard US layout QWERTY keyboard, this can be found to the left of ‘1’, and above the Tab key. To use inline code formatting, simply wrap the code you wish to format in backticks. You might also use it to illustrate a terminal command, like yarn install. By using inline code formatting, it is clear that this is a piece of code. You can use inline code formatting to emphasize a small command or piece of syntax within a line you’re writing.įor example, you may wish to mention JavaScript’s () method. You can either use inline code, by putting backticks (`) around parts of a line, or you can use a code block, which some renderers will apply syntax highlighting to. There are two ways to format code in Markdown.