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Markdown basics - GitLab Tutorial
From the course: Learning GitLab
Markdown basics
- [Instructor] Take a look at this file. You might recognize it as HTML, the language that websites are written in. It's not too hard to read if you're familiar with the language, but it certainly isn't easy. Also, if you don't know HTML, even if you can read the text, you probably don't understand what the resulting page will look like. Now compare it to this file. This is markdown code. It's totally readable. In fact, I think it looks like what you might write if you had to lay out a document using just a basic text editor. It's pretty obvious that the first part is a section heading. Then there's a list of bullet points, and then finally a numbered list. So let's see what these two source code files actually look like in the appropriate viewer. For the HTML, I'm using Firefox, and for the markdown I'm using Typora, which is a markdown renderer. You probably guessed it, but the files look pretty much identical. Just some style differences between Typora and Firefox. I actually…
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