Examples to demostrate the markdown basics.

A First Level Header

A Second Level Header

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.

Header 3

This is a blockquote.

This is the second paragraph in the blockquote.

This is an H2 in a blockquote

PHRASE EMPHASIS

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.

LISTS

• Candy.
• Gum.
• Booze.

• Candy.
• Gum.
• Booze.

• Candy.
• Gum.
• Booze.

1. Red
2. Green
3. Blue

• A list item.

  With multiple paragraphs.

• Another item in the list.

LINKS

This is an example link.

This is an example link.

I get 10 times more traffic from Google than from
Yahoo or MSN.

I start my morning with a cup of coffee and
The New York Times.

IMAGES

CODE

I strongly recommend against using any <blink> tags.

I wish SmartyPants used named entities like —
instead of decimal-encoded entites like —.

If you want your page to validate under XHTML 1.0 Strict,
you’ve got to put paragraph tags in your blockquotes:

<>
    <p>For example.</p>
</>