Using Markdown on GitHub: All commands at a glance

If you write your texts with Markdown, you can also easily use commands on GitHub to format your writing. Instead of memorizing all the commands, it's worth taking a look at a handy overview.

These are all commands for Markdown on GitHub

Using Markdown to format text on GitHub, you can resort to simple commands. You can find the most important ones here:

• Headlines: #, ##, ### for H1, H2 and H3 (up to H6)
• Cursive: _italic font_ or *italic font*
• Bold: __bold font__ or **bold font**
• Bold and italic: **bold and _italic_ combined**
• strikethrough: ~~strikethrough~
• line: ---, ***, or ___ (three or more of any of the characters)
• indent text: >Introduce paragraph with >
• You start a new paragraph by pressing Enter twice. So without a blank line, you stay in the same paragraph.
• Bullet: 1st, 2nd, 3rd at the beginning of a line, respectively *, - or + with space after for bullet points
• Links: [text in square brackets](link.en)

Furthermore, you can also create tables with commands. For this, you use vertical bars | and dashes - to represent the table:Header 1 | Header 2 | Header 3--- | --- | ---cell 1 | cell 2 | cell 3