There’s no way to do that in markdown’s native features. However markdown allows inline HTML, so writing This will appear with six space characters in front of it will produce: This will appear with six space characters in front of it If you have control over CSS on the page, you could also use a … Read more
You’re looking for the {% raw %} tag. {% raw %} Hello, my name is {{name}}. {% endraw %}
In standard Markdown, place an anchor <a name=”abcd”></a> where you want to link to and refer to it on the same page by [link text](#abcd). (This uses name= and not id=, for reasons explained in this answer.) Remote references can use [link text](http://…#abcd) of course. This works like a dream, provided you have control over … Read more
native markdown doesn’t support text alignment without html + css.
TL;DR Markdown doesn’t support color but you can inline HTML inside Markdown, e.g.: <span style=”color:blue”>some *blue* text</span>. Longer answer As the original/official syntax rules state (emphasis added): Markdown’s syntax is intended for one purpose: to be used as a format for writing for the web. Markdown is not a replacement for HTML, or even close … Read more
Github automatically parses anchor tags out of your headers. So you can do the following: [Custom foo description](#foo) # Foo In the above case, the Foo header has generated an anchor tag with the name foo Note: just one # for all heading sizes, no space between # and anchor name, anchor tag names must … Read more
The short answer is no. The long answer is yes. 🙂 Markdown was designed to allow people to write simple, readable text that could be easily converted to a simple HTML markup. It doesn’t really do document layout. For example, there’s no real way to align an image to the right or left. As to … Read more