a markdown cheatsheet showing all the elements and syntax. Stolen from the Mou.app for OSX http://mouapp.com/

cheatsheet-markdown.md

Mou

Overview

Mou, the missing Markdown editor for web developers.

Syntax

Strong and Emphasize

strong or strong ( Cmd + B )

emphasize or emphasize ( Cmd + I )

Sometimes I want a lot of text to be bold. Like, seriously, a LOT of text

Blockquotes

Right angle brackets > are used for block quotes.

Links and Email

An email example@example.com link.

Simple inline link http://chenluois.com, another inline link Smaller, one more inline link with title Resize.

A reference style link. Input id, then anywhere in the doc, define the link with corresponding id:

Titles ( or called tool tips ) in the links are optional.

Images

An inline image , title is optional.

A reference style image.

Inline code and Block code

Inline code are surround by backtick key. To create a block code:

Indent each line by at least 1 tab, or 4 spaces. var Mou = exactlyTheAppIwant;

Ordered Lists

Ordered lists are created using "1." + Space:

1. Ordered list item
2. Ordered list item
3. Ordered list item

Unordered Lists

Unordered list are created using "*" + Space:

• Unordered list item
• Unordered list item
• Unordered list item

Or using "-" + Space:

• Unordered list item
• Unordered list item
• Unordered list item

Hard Linebreak

End a line with two or more spaces will create a hard linebreak, called <br /> in HTML. ( Control + Return ) Above line ended with 2 spaces.

Horizontal Rules

Three or more asterisks or dashes:

---

---

---

Headers

Setext-style:

This is H1

This is H2

atx-style:

This is H1

This is H2

This is H3

This is H4

This is H5

This is H6

Extra Syntax

Footnotes

Footnotes work mostly like reference-style links. A footnote is made of two things: a marker in the text that will become a superscript number; a footnote definition that will be placed in a list of footnotes at the end of the document. A footnote looks like this:

That's some text with a footnote.¹

Strikethrough

Wrap with 2 tilde characters:

Strikethrough

Fenced Code Blocks

Start with a line containing 3 or more backticks, and ends with the first line with the same number of backticks:

Fenced code blocks are like Stardard Markdown’s regular code
blocks, except that they’re not indented and instead rely on
a start and end fence lines to delimit the code block.

Tables

A simple table looks like this:

First Header	Second Header	Third Header
Content Cell	Content Cell	Content Cell
Content Cell	Content Cell	Content Cell

If you wish, you can add a leading and tailing pipe to each line of the table:

First Header	Second Header	Third Header
Content Cell	Content Cell	Content Cell
Content Cell	Content Cell	Content Cell

Specify alignement for each column by adding colons to separator lines:

First Header	Second Header	Third Header
Left	Center	Right
Left	Center	Right

Footnotes

1. And that's the footnote. ↩