Markdown

If you're unfamiliar with Markdown, this guide covers 90% of what you'll need to create sites. The version of Markdown supported by PocoCMS is an industry standard called CommonMark.

For the gritty details, see the complete and very well written specification at the CommonMark site.

• The rudiments of Markdown can be found at Creating and linking to pages in the first PocoCMS tutorial
• Images in Markdown
  • Clickable image links
  • YouTube videos
• Formatting characters in Markdown
  • Bold
  • Italic
  • Monospaced
  • Strikethough
• Lines, lists, and blocks of text in Markdown
  • Markdown usually treats multiple blank lines as one
  • Markdown: two adjacent lines of text
    • Forcing two consecutive lines to appear that way
  • Markdown Lists
    • Markdown unordered list syntax
    • Alternate unordered list syntax
    • Markdown ordered list syntax
    • Markdown indented list syntax: nested lists
    • Markdown indented list syntax: indenting text
  • Block quotes
  • Horizontal lines (aka horizontal rules)
• Tables in Markdown
  • Table syntax simplified
  • Simple table example
  • Minimum table: a header only
  • Table with one header and one row:
  • Typical table with several rows
  • Dash and space count don't matter
  • Aligning text within columns
• Displaying code in Markdown
  • Creating a code block, aka code fence
  • Keyword highlighting for computer languages
  • Languages supported