the first example of markdown

This is a basic example of a Markdown document. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to add formatting to plain text. You can use Markdown to format text in GitHub comments, README files, Gists, and other documents.

More information about Markdown can be found in the official Markdown Guide .

Headers 1

Headers 2

Headers 3

Headers 4

Headers 5

Headers 6

Text Formatting

You can make text bold, italic, strikethrough or monospace.

Blockquotes

Blockquotes can be used to quote text from another source. Blockquotes can span multiple lines and can be nested.

Blockquotes can contain other formatting like bold text.

Lists

Markdown supports both ordered and unordered lists:

1. Item 1
2. Item 2
   • Subitem A
   • Subitem B

• Unordered item 1
• Unordered item 2
  • Subitem X
  • Subitem Y

, and supports task lists:

• Task 1
• Task 2
• Task 3

Links and Images

You can create links and embed images:

Code

Inline code can be added like code and blocks of code can be fenced with triple backticks:

def hello_world():
    print("Hello, World!")

Horizontal Rules

Tables