"label":"# Markdown: Syntax\n\n- [Overview](#overview)\n - [Philosophy](#philosophy)\n - [Inline HTML](#html)\n - [Automatic Escaping for Special Characters](#autoescape)\n- [Block Elements](#block)\n - [Paragraphs and Line Breaks](#p)\n - [Headers](#header)\n - [Blockquotes](#blockquote)\n - [Lists](#list)\n - [Code Blocks](#precode)\n - [Horizontal Rules](#hr)\n- [Span Elements](#span)\n - [Links](#link)\n - [Emphasis](#em)\n - [Code](#code)\n - [Images](#img)\n- [Miscellaneous](#misc)\n - [Backslash Escapes](#backslash)\n - [Automatic Links](#autolink)\n\n**Note:** This document is itself written using Markdown; you\ncan [see the source for it by adding '.text' to the URL](/projects/markdown/syntax.text).\n\n---\n\n## Overview\n\n### Philosophy\n\nMarkdown is intended to be as easy-to-read and easy-to-write as is feasible.\n\nReadability, however, is emphasized above all else. A Markdown-formatted\ndocument should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking\nlike it's been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. While\nMarkdown's syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML\nfilters -- including [Setext](http://docutils.sourceforge.net/mirror/setext.html), [atx](http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/atx/), [Textile](http://textism.com/tools/textile/), [reStructuredText](http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html),\n[Grutatext](http://www.triptico.com/software/grutatxt.html), and [EtText](http://ettext.taint.org/doc/) -- the single biggest source of\ninspiration for Markdown's syntax is the format of plain text email.\n\n## Block Elements\n\n### Paragraphs and Line Breaks\n\nA paragraph is simply one or more consecutive lines of text, separated\nby one or more blank lines. (A blank line is any line that looks like a\nblank line -- a line containing nothing but spaces or tabs is considered\nblank.) Normal paragraphs should not be indented with spaces or tabs.\n\nThe implication of the \"one or more consecutive lines of text\" rule is\nthat Markdown supports \"hard-wrapped\" text paragraphs. This differs\nsignificantly from most other text-to-HTML formatters (including Movable\nType's \"Convert Line Breaks\" option) which translate every line break\nend a line with two or more spaces, then type return.\n\n### Headers\n\nMarkdown supports two styles of headers, [Setext] [1] and [atx] [2].\n\nOptionally, you may \"close\" atx-style headers. This is purely\ncosmetic -- you can use this if you think it looks better. The\nclosing hashes don't even need to match the number of hashes\nused to open the header. (The number of opening hashes\ndetermines the header level.)\n\n### Blockquotes\n\nfamiliar with quoting passages of text in an email message, then you\nknow how to create a blockquote in Markdown. It looks best if you hard\n\n> This is a blockquote with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,\n> consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus.\n> Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus.\n>\n> Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. Suspendisse\n> id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing.\n\nline of a hard-wrapped paragraph:\n\n> This is a blockquote with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,\n> consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus.\n> Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus.\n\n> Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. Suspendisse\n> id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing.\n\nBlockquotes can be nested (i.e. a blockquote-in-a-blockquote) by\n\n> This is the first level of quoting.\n>\n> > This is nested blockquote.\n>\n> Back to the first level.\n\nBlockquotes can contain other Markdown elements, including headers, lists,\nand code blocks:\n\n> ## This is a header.\n>\n> 1. This is the first list item.\n> 2. This is the second list item.\n>\n> Here's some example code:\n>\n> return shell_exec(\"echo $input $markdown_script\");\n\nAnydecenttexteditorshouldmakeemail-stylequotingeasy.For\nexample,withBBEdi
