Free Online Markdown Editor

What is Markdown

Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting syntax. Its primary purpose is to make it easy to write and read content for the web without the complexity of HTML. Markdown allows you to format text using simple symbols to indicate styles like headings, bold, italics, lists, and links. It's widely used for writing content on platforms like GitHub, Reddit, and many blogging platforms.

Markdown is designed to be converted to HTML, making it an excellent choice for writing web content. You write in a simple, readable format, and then Markdown is converted (or "rendered") into HTML that web browsers can display.

Different Types of Markdown

While the core Markdown syntax is standardized, there are several "flavors" or variations that have been developed over time to extend its functionality or adapt it to specific platforms' needs. Here are some of the most notable ones:

1. CommonMark: An attempt to specify a standard, unambiguous syntax specification for Markdown that addresses inconsistencies and ambiguities in the original Markdown.
2. GitHub-Flavored Markdown (GFM): A variation used by GitHub that adds additional features like task lists, tables, and fenced code blocks with syntax highlighting.
3. Markdown Extra: Adds extra features not available in the original Markdown, such as tables, footnotes, and definition lists.
4. MultiMarkdown (MMD): Extends Markdown's functionality with features like footnotes, tables, citations, and math syntax.
5. Pandoc Markdown: Offers an extremely wide range of features, aimed at converting documents between various formats. It supports many of the extensions provided by other flavors of Markdown and introduces some of its own.
6. Markdown Here: Designed primarily for writing rich emails with Markdown, it supports a range of features like mathematical symbols and highlighting.

Each Markdown flavor is designed with specific use cases in mind, offering unique features beyond the basic Markdown syntax. However, the core principles of simplicity and readability remain consistent across different types.

Features of JekyllPad Markdown Editor

• Simple, robust and free
• Client-side & in-browser
• Supports Common Markdown and GitHub-Flavoured Markdown (GFM)
• Common paragraph formatting (Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikethrough)
• Code blocks (with syntax highlighting)
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript / Typescript
  • PHP
  • Python
  • Java
  • Go
  • Rust
  • SQL
  • Markdown
  • C / C++ / C#
  • Kotlin
  • Ruby
  • Swift
• Tables
• Blockquote
• Youtube video embed
• Image embed
• Insert/Edit Links
• H1/H6 heading management