Now is the time for all good men to come to
the aid of their country. This is just a
regular paragraph.

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy
dog’s back.

Markdown:

Some of these words are emphasized.
Some of these words are emphasized also.

Use two asterisks for strong emphasis.
Or, if you prefer, use two underscores instead.

Output:

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<p>Some of these words <em>are emphasized</em>.
Some of these words <em>are emphasized also</em>.</p>

<p>Use two asterisks for <strong>strong emphasis</strong>.
Or, if you prefer, <strong>use two underscores instead</strong>.</p>

Unordered (bulleted) lists use asterisks, pluses, and hyphens (*, +, and -) as list markers. These three markers are interchangable; this:

• Candy.
• Gum.
• Booze.

this:

• Candy.
• Gum.
• Booze.

and this:

• Candy.
• Gum.
• Booze.

all produce the same output:

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<ul>
<li>Candy.</li>
<li>Gum.</li>
<li>Booze.</li>
</ul>

Ordered (numbered) lists use regular numbers, followed by periods, as list markers:

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1.  Red
2.  Green
3.  Blue

Output:

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<ol>
<li>Red</li>
<li>Green</li>
<li>Blue</li>
</ol>

If you put blank lines between items, you’ll get

tags for the list item text. You can create multi-paragraph list items by indenting the paragraphs by 4 spaces or 1 tab:

• A list item.

  With multiple paragraphs.

• Another item in the list.

Output:

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<ul>
<li><p>A list item.</p>
<p>With multiple paragraphs.</p></li>
<li><p>Another item in the list.</p></li>
</ul>

Markdown supports two styles for creating links: inline and reference. With both styles, you use square brackets to delimit the text you want to turn into a link.

Inline-style links use parentheses immediately after the link text. For example:

Image syntax is very much like link syntax.

Inline (titles are optional):

Reference-style:

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![alt text][id]

[id]: http://lorempixel.com/400/200/ "Title"

Both of the above examples produce the same output:

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<img src="/path/to/img.jpg" alt="alt text" title="Title" />