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Understanding Markdown

Action Items

Communicate and collaborate using Markdown

Free Benefits

GitHub

Est. Time

About 20 minutes

Level

Beginner

Overview

Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. More simply put, Markdown is a way to write content for the web and one of the most important ways developers can make their communication clear and organized in issues and pull requests. This Experience walks you through the common uses of Markdown in GitHub so that you can feel confident communicating on the platform.

About this Experience

We'll update a plain text file and add Markdown formatting, and you can use this file to start your own GitHub Pages site. In this course, you will

  • Add headers and an image
  • Add a code example
  • Make a task list
  • Merge your pull request