Markdown
Master Markdown for writing beautiful documentation, README files, and content. Learn the syntax used across GitHub, blogs, and technical writing.
Learn Markdown — the simple formatting syntax for READMEs, docs and notes — with quick, practical, beginner-friendly lessons.
Part of the free Markdown course at LearnCodingFast — hands-on lessons with examples you run in your browser, plus practice exercises and a quick quiz.
New to Markdown? Learn it in under an hour.
Start with Lesson 1 — Introduction to Markdown. It's the quickest course on the site and immediately useful for any developer.
Lessons in this course
- Introduction to Markdown — What Markdown is, where it's used, and why developers love it
- Basic Formatting — Headings, bold, italic, inline code, and blockquotes
- Lists and Tables — Create ordered and unordered lists, nested items, and data tables
- Links and Images — Insert hyperlinks, embed images, and link to page sections
- Advanced Markdown Features — Code blocks with syntax highlighting, task lists, footnotes, and GitHub-flavoured Markdown
- YAML Front Matter — Add structured metadata with the --- block used by static site generators
- Diagrams with Mermaid — Draw flowcharts, sequence and other diagrams from text in Markdown
- Math with LaTeX — Write inline and block equations rendered by KaTeX or MathJax
- Markdown Flavors: GFM vs CommonMark — How CommonMark, GitHub Flavored Markdown and others differ — and writing portable docs
- Publishing with MkDocs, Hugo and Jekyll — Turn Markdown into documentation sites and blogs with static site generators
- Writing Accessible Markdown — Heading hierarchy, descriptive links and alt text for screen-reader-friendly docs