# A cheat sheet on Markdown

**What is a markdown ?**

Whenever you visit websites like Github you see there is a file with the extension `.md` and generally by the name `readme.md`. 

Have you ever wondered what is that `.md` file is? Well, that is a markdown file. Well, markdown is a lightweight markup language. It is one of the world's most popular markup language. 
For writing a markdown file you can use editor-like vs code.
Below are some of the syntax for writing a markdown file.

**For heading**

There are six headings that are available in markdown, which is shown in the image.

![Screenshot (24).png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1658574892884/bPAo56bwr.png align="left")

**If you want to include a code snippet**

While writing sometimes you want to include a code snippet for better understanding, in that case, you can refer to the below image.


![Screenshot (25).png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1658575097607/_p5Pt3H1C.png align="left")

In other cases, if you want to highlight a single line of code, you can use backtick for that, as in the below example.


![Screenshot (26).png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1658575391095/_FxX2_Cr3.png align="left")

**Embedding a hyperlink**
If you want to refer to some hyperlink in your markdown document,

![Screenshot (27).png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1658575818519/2UP81Iys4.png align="left")

**Bold, Italics and Lists**

Below image shows three things how to write bold, unordered lists, italic, and unordered list.


![Screenshot (28).png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1658577752156/NhsAEE8Tg.png align="left")