HTML5 Tags Supported by Markdown

These are the supported HTML tags, which will be generated from Markdown.

Heading One

Heading Two

Heading Three

Heading Four

Heading Five

Heading Six

Paragraphs

An ordinary paragraph with some text.

Another paragraph with more text to show, how the paragraph spacing is done. Note: Paragraphs with proper line height are mandatory for a good reading experience. Too little or too large makes a webpage unattractive.

Lists

Unordered Lists (Nested)

• List item one
  • List item one
    • List item one
    • List item two
    • List item three
  • List item two
  • List item three
• List item two
• List item three

Ordered List (Nested)

1. List item one
   1. List item one
      1. List item one
      2. List item two
      3. List item three
   2. List item two
   3. List item three
2. List item two
3. List item three

Anchor Tag (aka Link)

This is a link.

Block-Quote Tag

Single-line block-quote:

The most complicated skill is to be simple.

Multi-line block-quote with a cite reference:

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

— Steve Jobs

Code Tag

A code tag markups code print("Hello World") for better separation from the text around it.

Emphasize Tag

The emphasize tag should italicize text.

Image Tag

The image tag will show the image of /icon.webp, if it exists:

Pre-Formatted Tag

This tag was generated from Markdown’s code fencing (```) with CSS syntax:

.header {
  margin: 2em 0;
  font-size: 36px;
  font-weight: bold;
  line-height: 1.5;
}

Strong Tag

This tag shows bold text.

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HTML5 Tags Supported by GitHub-Flavored Markdown

Tables

Markdown tables don’t support captions, but headers and footers.

Character	Appearance
Donald Duck	1934
Huey, Dewey, and Louie	1937
Scrooge McDuck	1947

Delete Tag

This tag will let you strikethrough text.

Footnotes

Footnotes¹ are not tags and therefore don’t belong to the HTML standard. Yet some Markdown parsers support them.

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