📝 Markdown Preview

Write Markdown and see a live preview. Supports headings, bold, italic, links, code blocks, tables, and more.

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📖 Markdown Cheat Sheet

Markdown is a lightweight markup language created by John Gruber in 2004. It lets you write formatted text using plain text syntax — no HTML required. It's widely used in README files, documentation, blogs, forums (Reddit, Stack Overflow), and chat apps (Slack, Discord).

# Heading 1    ## Heading 2    ### Heading 3
**bold**    *italic*    ~~strikethrough~~
[link text](url)    ![image](url)
\`inline code\`    \`\`\`code block\`\`\`
- list item    1. numbered item
> blockquote    --- horizontal rule
| Col 1 | Col 2 | (table)

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Markdown is used for README files on GitHub, documentation, blog posts, forum messages, note-taking apps (Obsidian, Notion), and static site generators (Jekyll, Hugo). It's the standard for developer documentation.

Yes! Most Markdown processors allow inline HTML for advanced formatting that Markdown doesn't support natively. However, HTML inside Markdown may not render in all contexts (e.g., some forum systems strip HTML tags).

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