Markdown Guide for Developers
Markdown is a lightweight markup language used to format text. It allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).
Syntax Cheat Sheet
Basic Formatting
**Bold Text**→ Bold Text*Italic Text*→ Italic Text[Link](http://...)→ Link`Inline Code`→Inline Code
Structure
# Heading 1## Heading 2- List Item1. Numbered Item
Why Convert to HTML?
While Markdown is great for writing, browsers don't understand it natively. To display your formatted text on a website, it must be converted into HTML tags. This tool uses Marked, a fast and robust parser, to handle this conversion securely.
Converting HTML back to Markdown
Sometimes you find a great layout on a webpage and want to use it in your README or documentation. Our tool includes a "Reverse Converter" (using Turndown) that strips HTML tags and attempts to recreate the cleanest possible Markdown equivalent.