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title: Markdown Cheat Sheets
description: Cheat sheets and quick references for the Markdown simple markup language.
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tags: [reference, cheatsheet]
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Markdown is used extensively on the GitHub site for Pull Request comments, issue comments, and just about everywhere else you can input text. It provides a simple way to style content without the complexity of WYSIWYG editor controls.

> Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).  
> – John Gruber

Several sources for cheat sheets about Markdown are as follows.

* [Matthew's Markdown Bookmarks](https://pinboard.in/u:matthew.mccullough/t:markdown)
* [GitHub Flavored Markdown](http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/)
* [Original Markdown (Gruber) Page](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/)
