GitHub Flavored Markdown

Variant of Markdown used by GitHub which adds additional formatting extensions, and custom behavior specific to the platform

Entitylightweight markup language document file formatQ97278868

Also known as GFM

Instance of: lightweight markup language
, document file format

Overview

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Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber created Markdown in 2004 as an easy-to-read markup language. Markdown is widely used for blogging, instant messaging, and large language models, and also used elsewhere in online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files.

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Based on: CommonMark
Used by: GitHub

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1 identifiers linking GitHub Flavored Markdown across the web's reference databases

Google Knowledge Graph ID/g/11hfw2v3mt

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