Markdown
A lightweight markup language with plain-text formatting syntax that is popularly used
Also known as markdown
- Instance of
- Founded
- March 19, 2004
- , 2004
Overview
All data
49 statements · 41% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Developer
- Aaron Swartz
3
Sources- 1.aaronsw.com/weblog/001189
- 2.web.archive.org/web/20040402182332/http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
- 3.“Markdown - Wikipedia”
- John Gruber
3
Sources- 1.web.archive.org/web/20040402182332/http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
- 2.aaronsw.com/weblog/001189
- 3.“Markdown - Wikipedia”
- Aaron Swartz
- File extension
- md
- markdown
- mkd
- mdown
- mdtxt
- mdtext
- mkdn
1
Sources- 1.“Ubuntu Manpage: Text::Markup::Markdown - Markdown parser for Text::Markup”manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/resolute/man3/Text::Markup::Markdown.3pm.htmlRetrieved 2026-06-30
- mdwn nature of statement: rarely
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Sources- 1.“Markdown Mode for Emacs”jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/Retrieved 2026-06-30
- 2.“markdown.vim”raw.githubusercontent.com/preservim/vim-markdown/3a9643961233c2812816078af8bd1eaabc530dce/ftdetect/markdown.vimRetrieved 2026-06-30
- Media type
- text/markdown
1
- text/markdown
- Latest version
- 2004-12-17 released: December 17, 2004
1
Sources- 1.“Daring Fireball: Markdown”daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
- 2004-12-17 released: December 17, 2004
On other databases
12 identifiers linking Markdown across the web's reference databases
- AlternativeTo IDmarkdown
- FAST ID1931102
- File Format Wiki page IDMarkdown
- Freebase ID/m/0jt0gkj
- GitHub topicmarkdown
- GitLab.com topic IDmarkdown
- J9U entity ID987007415877105171
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh2015002740
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)162452499
- PRONOM file format IDfmt/1149
- Uniform Type Identifiernet.daringfireball.markdown
- Zhihu topic ID19590742