Documentation style guide
You can write content using GitHub-flavored Markdown syntax.
Markdown Syntax
To serve as an example page when styling markdown based Docusaurus sites.
Headers
H1 - Create the best documentation
H2 - Create the best documentation
H3 - Create the best documentation
H4 - Create the best documentation
H5 - Create the best documentation
H6 - Create the best documentation
Emphasis
Emphasis, aka italics, with asterisks or underscores.
Strong emphasis, aka bold, with asterisks or underscores.
Combined emphasis with asterisks and underscores.
Strikethrough uses two tildes. Scratch this.
Lists
- First ordered list item
- Another item ⋅⋅* Unordered sub-list.
- Actual numbers don't matter, just that it's a number ⋅⋅1. Ordered sub-list
- And another item.
⋅⋅⋅You can have properly indented paragraphs within list items. Notice the blank line above, and the leading spaces (at least one, but we'll use three here to also align the raw Markdown).
⋅⋅⋅To have a line break without a paragraph, you will need to use two trailing spaces.⋅⋅ ⋅⋅⋅Note that this line is separate, but within the same paragraph.⋅⋅ ⋅⋅⋅(This is contrary to the typical GFM line break behaviour, where trailing spaces are not required.)
- Unordered list can use asterisks
- Or minuses
- Or pluses
Links
I'm an inline-style link with title
I'm a relative reference to a repository file
You can use numbers for reference-style link definitions
Or leave it empty and use the link text itself.
URLs and URLs in angle brackets will automatically get turned into links. http://www.example.com or http://www.example.com and sometimes example.com (but not on Github, for example).
Some text to show that the reference links can follow later.
Images
Here's our logo (hover to see the title text):
Inline-style:
Reference-style:
Code
var s = 'JavaScript syntax highlighting';
alert(s);)
s = "Python syntax highlighting"
print(s)
No language indicated, so no syntax highlighting.
But let's throw in a <b>tag</b>.
function highlightMe() {
console.log('This line can be highlighted!');
}
Tables
Colons can be used to align columns.
Tables | Are | Cool |
---|---|---|
col 3 is | right-aligned | $1600 |
col 2 is | centered | $12 |
zebra stripes | are neat | $1 |
There must be at least 3 dashes separating each header cell. The outer pipes (|) are optional, and you don't need to make the raw Markdown line up prettily. You can also use inline Markdown.
Markdown | Less | Pretty |
---|---|---|
Still | renders | nicely |
1 | 2 | 3 |
Blockquotes
Blockquotes are very handy in email to emulate reply text. This line is part of the same quote.
Quote break.
This is a very long line that will still be quoted properly when it wraps. Oh boy let's keep writing to make sure this is long enough to actually wrap for everyone. Oh, you can put Markdown into a blockquote.
Inline HTML
Definition list Is something people use sometimes. Markdown in HTML Does * not * work ** very ** well.Use HTML tags.
Line Breaks
Here's a line for us to start with.
This line is separated from the one above by two newlines, so it will be a separate paragraph.
This line is also a separate paragraph, but... This line is only separated by a single newline, so it's a separate line in the same paragraph.
Admonitions
💡 Tip
This is a note
✏️ Note
This is a tip
📚 Info
This is important
✋ Caution
This is a caution
❌ Danger
This is a warning