Markdown

Inline

Phrase Emphasis

*italic*   **bold**
_italic_   __bold__

Links

An [example](http://url.com/ "Title")

An [example][id]. Then, anywhere else in the doc, define the link:
  [id]: http://example.com/  "Title"

Images

Inline (titles are optional):

![alt text](/path/img.jpg "Title")

Reference-style:

![alt text][id]
[id]: /url/to/img.jpg "Title"

Manual Line Breaks

End a line with two or more spaces:

Roses are red,   
Violets are blue.

Block

Headers

Setext-style:

Header 1
========
Header 2
--------

atx-style (closing #'s are optional):

# Header 1 #
## Header 2 ##
###### Header 6

Lists

Ordered, without paragraphs:

1.  Foo
2.  Bar

Unordered, with paragraphs:

*   A list item.
    With multiple paragraphs.
*   Bar

You can nest them:

*   Abacus
    * answer
*   Bubbles
    1.  bunk
    2.  bupkis
        * BELITTLER
    3. burper
*   Cunning

Blockquotes

> Email-style angle brackets
> are used for blockquotes.
> > And, they can be nested.
> #### Headers in blockquotes
> 
> * You can quote a list.
> * Etc.

Horizontal Rules

Three or more dashes or asterisks:

---
* * *
- - - -

Code

Code Spans

`<code>` spans are delimited
by backticks.
You can include literal backticks
like `` `this` ``.

Preformatted Code Blocks

Indent every line of a code block by at least 4 spaces or 1 tab.

This is a normal paragraph.
    This is a preformatted
    code block.

StackExchange

See the official help and the allowed HTML elements and classes.

Comments

[faq] and [faq#anchor] – should be obvious. Link text is faq (capitalization is respected).
[answer] – link to current-site/questions/how-to-answer. Link text is How to answer.
[ask] – link to current-site/questions/how-to-ask. Link text is How to ask.
[about] – link to current-site/about. Link text is About.
[meta] – link to the current site's Meta; link text is the site name (e.g. "Super User Meta"). Does nothing if the site doesn't have (or already is) a Meta site.
[main] – like [meta], just the other way around.
[edit] – link to the edit page for the post the comment is on, i.e. /posts/{id}/edit. Link text is "edit" (capitalization is respected).
[so], [su], [sf], [metaso] – link to the given site. Link text is the site name.
[something.se] – link to something.stackexchange.com, if that site exists. Link text is the site name.

Syntax Highlighting

<!-- language: lang-or-tag-here -->

Supportet Languages

lang-none
lang-default
lang-bsh
lang-c
lang-cpp
lang-cs
lang-csh
lang-css
lang-hs
lang-html
lang-java
lang-js
lang-lisp
lang-lua
lang-ml
lang-perl
lang-php
lang-proto
lang-rb
lang-scala
lang-sh
lang-sql
lang-vb
lang-xml

Spoiler

Spoilers have the same text color as background color, but can be revealed by hovering over them (or selecting the text).

>! Spoiler text