
Or to make a phrase bold, you add two asterisks before and after it (e.g., **this text is bold**). When you create a Markdown-formatted file, you add Markdown syntax to the text to indicate which words and phrases should look different.įor example, to denote a heading, you add a number sign before it (e.g., # Heading One). In an application like Microsoft Word, you click buttons to format words and phrases, and the changes are visible immediately.

Using Markdown is different than using a WYSIWYG editor.

Created by John Gruber in 2004, Markdown is now one of the world’s most popular markup languages.

Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to add formatting elements to plaintext text documents.
