Markdown is a way to style text on the web. You control the display of the document; formatting words as bold or italic, adding images, and creating lists are just a few of the things we can do with Markdown.

Github has created its own Flavor of Markdown. You can use GitHub Flavored Markdown anywhere in the Github Ecosystem

• Github
• Gists
• Github Pages
• Github Discussions
• Issues
• Pull Requests

In this post, I am sharing the full list of supported markdown syntax in Github let's get started with the basics

Headings

You can use one # up to ###### six for different heading sizes.

# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading 3
### Heading 4 
#### Heading 5
###### Heading 6

Github Output

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Text Styling

Text in the markdown can be styled with the below syntax

[link to Google!](http://google.com)

[link to Google With Title](http://google.com "Hi, I am the title" )

**Bold Text**

*Italic Text*

***Bold & Italic***

~I am Striked Out~

This line has an `inline` code block

> Blockquoted Text

>> Nested Block Quote Possible 

>>> Unlimited Level Of Blockquote Nesting

Github Output

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Links

Adding links in a markdown can sometimes become hard especially when working on a large markdown file. and for that markdown has provided an awesome feature where you can globally set the links for a word and then use that word to call it as a link.

Inline linking [Github](https://github.com)
Linking [Google] & [Hashnode] using globally set links

Link with [Custom title](https://example.com "This is an awesome website")

[Google]: http://google.com
[Hashnode]: http://hashnode.com

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Lists

Creating a list in markdown is quite easy as just appending a single character for unordered list append * or - for ordered list append 1.

### Unordered List
List using `*`
* Item 1
* Item 2

List using `-`
- Item 1
- Item 2


### Ordered List

1. Item 1
1. Item 2
1. Item 3

### Nested Lists

* Unordered List
  - Sub item 1
  - Sub item 2
* Ordered List
  1. Sub Item 1
  1. Sub Item 2

Github Output

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Images

adding images in markdown is fairly easy by just adding ![Alt Text](Image URL)

### Basic Image
![Basic Image](https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/583231)


### Image With HTML Title Attribute
![Image With Title](https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/583231 "The Octocat Avatar")

Yes Github Supports HTML Title Tag In Images

Github Output

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Tables

You can create tables by assembling a list of words and dividing them with hyphens - (for the first row), and then separating each column with a pipe |

| First Header | Second Header |
| --- | --- |
| Content from cell 1 | Content from cell 2 |
| Content in the first column | Content in the second column |

Github Output

Table Column Alignment

In markdown, each table column text can be assigned left,right, orcenter` alignment using the below options

1. For Left Align :--
2. For Center Align :---:
3. For Right Align ---:

`Column 2` is Right aligned 

| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| --- | ---: | --- |
| Content | I am right aligned | Content |
| Content | I am right aligned | Content |
| Content | I am right aligned | Content |

`Column 2` is Right aligned 

| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| --- | ---: | --- |
| Content | I am right aligned | Content |
| Content | I am right aligned | Content |
| Content | I am right aligned | Content |

`Column 2` is Left aligned 

| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| --- | :--- | --- |
| Content | I am left alinged | Content |
| Content | I am left alinged | Content |
| Content | I am left alinged | Content |

Github Output

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GitHub Flavored Markdown

Github has explained well so please refer to GitHub Flavored Markdown Docs on how to use Codeblocks,Task Lists,SHA references,Username @mentions & Emoji