GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Markdown
Discover how to format and edit your comments and posts using Markdown.
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Spec-driven development: Using Markdown as a programming language when building with AI
I coded my latest app entirely in Markdown and let GitHub Copilot compile it into Go. This resulted in cleaner specs, faster iteration, and no more context loss. ✨
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How to make your images in Markdown on GitHub adjust for dark mode and light mode
When you want your images to look good in Markdown on GitHub, you might have to adjust for the UI around them.
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Video: How to create checklists in Markdown for easier task tracking
Ever wondered how to create checklists in your GitHub repositories, Issues, and PRs? Make task lists more manageable in your GitHub repositories, issues, and pull requests.
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Math support in Markdown
Mathematical expressions are key to information sharing amongst engineers, scientists, data scientists, and mathematicians. Today we are pleased to announce that math expressions can be rendered in Markdown on GitHub using $$ as a delimiter for code blocks with math content or the $ delimiter for inline math expressions.
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Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid
A picture tells a thousand words. Now you can quickly create and edit diagrams in markdown using words with Mermaid support in your Markdown files.
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GitHub Protips: Tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets from Lee Reilly
Check out Lee Reilly’s top ten tips and tricks to help you hack your GitHub experience. You won’t believe tip number eight!
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A formal spec for GitHub Flavored Markdown
Starting today, all Markdown user content hosted in our website, including user comments, wikis, and .md files in repositories will be parsed and rendered following a formal specification for GitHub Flavored Markdown.
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We’re releasing a formal specification of the syntax for GitHub Flavored Markdown, and its corresponding reference implementation.
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Drag-and-drop tasks in Markdown task lists
You can now move checklist items around just by dragging and dropping them. Reorder items quickly and easily without editing the original comment’s Markdown. How to re-order task list items…
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A look behind our decision to standardize on a single Markdown engine for GitHub Pages
Two months ago, we announced that GitHub Pages is dropping support for the RDiscount, Redcarpet, and RedCloth (Textile) markup engines on May 1st. For the vast majority of users, this…
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Upgrading your Textile posts to Markdown
A month ago, we announced that GitHub Pages had upgraded to Jekyll 3.0. Starting May 1st, 2016, GitHub Pages will no longer support Textile. If you are currently using Textile…
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You’ll notice there’s a new Markdown text-formatting toolbar on all the comment fields throughout GitHub. While you’ve always been able to use Markdown to format your text with links, headers,…
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Task lists in issues, comments, and pull request descriptions are incredibly useful for project coordination and keeping track of important items. Starting today, we are adding read-only task lists to…
Learn moreThe library Markdown’d, Textile’d Readmes
Any READMEs ending in @.markdown@ or @.textile@ will now be displayed using the proper filter. Take Josh’s here, for instance. Sexy. Update: We speak RDoc now, too. Use the @.rdoc@…
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