Summary

title: Markdown 101 category: Research order: 1

Markdown is a very simple way of taking notes and formatting them, using only the keyboard.

It allows "write once, use anywhere" functionality.

Headings 1 to 6 are created by using the relevant numberof Hash (#) symbols in front of the text

# Heading 1 (h1)
## Heading 2 (H2)
### Heading 3 (H3)
#### Heading 4 (H4)

will render as:

These headings have been added to a LIST

- Item 1
- Item 2
  - Item 3

renders as

Indenting is reflected in the list.

Leave blank lines before and after most things

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

renders as

Links follow this format:

[BBC NEWS](http://news.bbc.co.uk)

and will render as

Images look lile a LIINK with a ! in front of them:

![IMAGE ALT TEXT](https://scotentsd.github.io/tutorials/images/extensionsearch.png){:height="40%" width="40%"}

The {:height="40%" width="40%"} lets you adjust the size.

This will render as: IMAGE ALT TEXT {:height="40%" width="40%"}

You can add links to other headings, (Table of Contents), in the same page using this format

[Contents](#contents)

which will render as:

To stay within the Microsoft Family, we are using