Formatting using Markdown

Markdown has become a common standard for formatting online text. Submitty allows simple formatting using markdown in several Click on the markdown symbol to enable formatting of your post using markdown.

• Headings
  Adding a number of # and a space before text will make it a heading:

    # h1
    ## h2
    ### h3
    #### h4
    ##### h5
    ###### h6
  

  You can alternatively create heading like this:

    Alt h1
    =====
  
    Alt h2
    -----
  

• Links
  To add a hyperlink to url labeled with display text:

  [display text](url)
  

• Italics
  Adding _ (one underscore) or * (one asterisk) before and after text will italicize that text. Opening and closing symbols need to match.

• Bold
  Adding __ (two underscores) ** (two asterisks) before and after text will make that text bold. Opening and closing symbols need to match.

• Bold and Italics
  Adding ___ (three underscores) *** (three asterisks) before and after text will make that text bold and italic. Opening and closing symbols need to match.

• Inline Code
  Adding ` (a single backtick) before and after text will render that text in teletype / fixed-width type. This is useful for short, inlined code.

• Code Blocks
  Adding ``` (a triple backtick) on blank lines above and below text will turn it into a code block. You can also specify a language for syntax highlighting. For example:

   ```c++
   int main() {
       printf("hello world\n");
   }
   ```
  

  yields:

   int main() {
       printf("hello world\n");
   }
  

• Lists
  Adding * or numbers (ex. 1., 2., 3.) followed by a space before text will create a bulleted or numbered list. You can indent further for sub-items in the list. For example:

  * Item 1
   * Sub-Item 1
   * Sub-Item 2
  * Item 2
     
  1. Item 1
  2. Item 2
   1. Sub-Item 1
   2. Sub-Item 2
  3. Item 3