Basic Markdown Features Test

This page tests all the core markdown syntax features to ensure proper rendering.

Headers

H1 Header

H2 Header

H3 Header

H4 Header

H5 Header

H6 Header

Text Formatting

Bold text and italic text and bold italic text.

Strikethrough text and inline code.

Regular text with bold in the middle and italic here and code snippets.

Lists

Unordered Lists

• First item

• Second item

  • Nested item 1
  • Nested item 2
    • Deeply nested item

• Third item

• Alternative syntax

• Using asterisks

  • Nested with asterisk
  • Another nested item

Ordered Lists

1. First numbered item
2. Second numbered item
   1. Nested numbered item
   2. Another nested item
      1. Deeply nested
3. Third item

Task Lists

• Completed task
• Incomplete task
• Another completed task
• Todo item

Blockquotes

This is a simple blockquote.

This is a longer blockquote that spans multiple lines and demonstrates how blockquotes should render with proper spacing and indentation.

Blockquote with formatting

This blockquote contains italic and bold text, as well as inline code.

• It can even contain lists
• Multiple items
• With proper formatting

Nested Blockquotes

This is the outer quote.

This is a nested quote inside the outer quote.

And this is a triple-nested quote.

Links

External link to Google

Internal link to homepage

Link with title

Reference link

Another reference link

Autolink: https://www.github.com

Email autolink: user@example.com

Tables

Header 1	Header 2	Header 3
Row 1 Col 1	Row 1 Col 2	Row 1 Col 3
Row 2 Col 1	Row 2 Col 2	Row 2 Col 3

Table with Alignment

Left Aligned	Center Aligned	Right Aligned
Left text	Center text	Right text
Another row	More centered	Right side

Table with Formatting

Feature	Status	Notes
Bold headers	✅ Complete	Working well
Italic text	🔄 In Progress	code in tables
Links	❌ Broken	Needs fixing

Horizontal Rules

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Line Breaks

This line has two spaces at the end
So this should be on a new line.

This paragraph has a blank line before it.

Escape Characters

*This should not be italic*

`This should not be code`

[This should not be a link]

HTML in Markdown

HTML bold tag

HTML italic tag

HTML code tag

Definition Lists

Term 1 : Definition for term 1

Term 2 : Definition for term 2 : Another definition for term 2

Abbreviations

The HTML specification is maintained by the W3C.

*[HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language *[W3C]: World Wide Web Consortium

Footnotes

Here's a sentence with a footnote¹.

Another sentence with a different footnote².

Special Characters

Em dash — and en dash –

Ellipsis…

Quotes: "double" and 'single'

Apostrophes: don't, won't, it's

Mixed Content Example

Here's a paragraph with bold, italic, code, and a link.

Then a blockquote with a list:

1. First item
2. Second item with code
3. Third item

Followed by a table:

Column 1	Column 2
Bold	Italic
Code	Link

And finally some code:

# This is markdown inside a code block
**This should not be bold**
*This should not be italic*

That's the end of our markdown features test!

Footnotes

1. This is the first footnote. ↩

2. This is a named footnote with more content. ↩