Examples taken from https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics

A First Level Header

A Second Level Header

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. This is just a regular paragraph.

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back.

Header 3

This is a blockquote.

This is the second paragraph in the blockquote.

This is an H2 in a blockquote


Some of these words are emphasized. Some of these words are emphasized also.

Use two asterisks for strong emphasis. Or, if you prefer, use two underscores instead.



  1. Red
  2. Green
  3. Blue


This is an example link.

This is an example link.


I get 10 times more traffic from Google than from Yahoo or MSN.

I start my morning with a cup of coffee and The New York Times.


alt text

alt text


I strongly recommend against using any <blink> tags.

I wish SmartyPants used named entities like &mdash; instead of decimal-encoded entites like &#8212;.

If you want your page to validate under XHTML 1.0 Strict, you've got to put paragraph tags in your blockquotes:

<blockquote>
    <p>For example.</p>
</blockquote>