Headers

H1

H2

H3

H4

H5

H6

Emphasis

Emphasis, aka italics, with asterisks or underscores.

Strong emphasis, aka bold, with asterisks or underscores.

Combined emphasis with asterisks and underscores.

Strikethrough uses two tildes. ~~Scratch this.~~

Lists

First ordered list item

Another item
- Unordered sub-list.

Actual numbers don't matter, just that it's a number
1. Ordered sub-list

And another item.

You can have properly indented paragraphs within list items. Notice the blank line above, and the leading spaces (at least one, but we'll use three here to also align the raw Markdown).

To have a line break without a paragraph, you will need to use two trailing spaces.⋅⋅
Note that this line is separate, but within the same paragraph.⋅⋅
(This is contrary to the typical GFM line break behaviour, where trailing spaces are not required.)

Unordered list can use asterisks

Or minuses

Or pluses

Links

Or leave it empty and use the .

URLs and URLs in angle brackets will automatically get turned into links.

or and sometimes

example.com (but not on Github, for example).

Some text to show that the reference links can follow later.

Images

Here's our logo (hover to see the title text):

Inline-style:

Reference-style:

Code

body{    margin: 0 auto;    font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;    color: #444444;    line-height: 1;    padding: 30px;}

Tables

Colons can be used to align columns.

Tables	Are	Cool
col 3 is	right-aligned	$1600
col 2 is	centered	$12
zebra stripes	are neat	$1

There must be at least 3 dashes separating each header cell.

The outer pipes (|) are optional, and you don't need to make the

raw Markdown line up prettily. You can also use inline Markdown.

Markdown	Less	Pretty
Still	`renders`	nicely
1	2	3

Blockquotes

Blockquotes are very handy in email to emulate reply text.
This line is part of the same quote.
Quote break.

This is a very long line that will still be quoted properly when it wraps. Oh boy let's keep writing to make sure this is long enough to actually wrap for everyone. Oh, you can put Markdown into a blockquote.