if you’d prefer to use HTML or tags instead of Markdown’s link or image syntax, go right ahead. If you want, you can even use HTML tags instead of Markdown formatting e.g. ,, or – can be used anywhere in a Markdown paragraph, list item, or header. E.g., you can’t use Markdown-style *emphasis* inside an HTML block. Note that Markdown formatting syntax is not processed within block-level HTML tags. Markdown is smart enough not to add extra (unwanted) tags around HTML block-level tags.įor example, to add an HTML table to a Markdown article: This is a regular paragraph. – must be separated from surrounding content by blank lines, and the start and end tags of the block should not be indented with tabs or spaces. The only restrictions are that block-level HTML elements – e.g. There’s no need to preface it or delimit it to indicate that you’re switching from Markdown to HTML you just use the tags. Thus, Markdown’s formatting syntax only addresses issues that can be conveyed in plain text.įor any markup that is not covered by Markdown’s syntax, you simply use HTML itself. HTML is a publishing format Markdown is a writing format. The idea for Markdown is to make it easy to read, write, and edit prose. In my opinion, HTML tags are already easy to insert. The idea is not to create a syntax that makes it easier to insert HTML tags. Its syntax is very small, corresponding only to a very small subset of HTML tags. Markdown is not a replacement for HTML, or even close to it. Markdown’s syntax is intended for one purpose: to be used as a format for writing for the web. Even blockquotes look like quoted passages of text, assuming you’ve ever used email. E.g., asterisks around a word actually look like *emphasis*. To this end, Markdown’s syntax is comprised entirely of punctuation characters, which punctuation characters have been carefully chosen so as to look like what they mean.
While Markdown’s syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML filters – including Setext, atx, Textile, reStructuredText, Grutatext, and EtText – the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email.
A Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. Readability, however, is emphasized above all else. Markdown is intended to be as easy-to-read and easy-to-write as is feasible. Note: This document is itself written using Markdown you can see the source for it by adding ‘.text’ to the URL. Automatic Escaping for Special Characters.
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