The title, if supplied, is displayed in a 'tooltip' which appears when the user hovers their mouse over the link text. There are two ways to create links to web resources: the first is to include the link inline, placing the text you wish readers to click on in square brackets, and the URL of the page they will be taken to immediately afterwards in parentheses with no space or gap between the two sets of brackets you can also add an optional title for the link in quotes after the URL.Īn ( "Optional Title") in a sentence. You can save some typing by only using a single angle bracket at the beginning of the first line of the paragraph The output will generally indent the quoted section in from both margins. This character was chosen as many email programs use it to indicate quoted sections. You can indicate a quoted section of text by beginning each line with an angle bracket (>). You can nest or indent bullet and numbered lists, even mixing bullet point and numbered lists in one structure: Similarly, numbered lists can be created by starting each line with a number followed by a space and then the relevant text. Note that the space is important and should not be forgotten. Without a blank line, the text will not be rendered as a list.īullet point lists can be created by starting each line with an asterisk followed by a space before the content of the bullet point. To be recognised as a list, all lists must have a blank line before them. This alternative uses a line of equal signs (=) or hyphens (-) under the title as follows: The first two levels of headings are most common and can be created in alternative ways that make them stand out more in the text version (though the output is identical to the previous method). One hash is the largest and most important heading, and six hashes gives you the least important or smallest heading. You can create a heading by starting a line with one or more hash characters (#). For example, there are three levels of heading used in the text you are currently reading. Markdown allows you to subdivide your text with headings six different levels are available though it is unusual for a normal text to use more than three. Underscores (_) can be used interchangeably with asterisks for this purpose. This is achieved by surrounding the text you wish to emphasise with asterisks e.g.Įmphasis can be added to single words, a sequence of words, or even parts of words: You can add three levels of emphasis with Markdown, italic text, bold text, or bold and italic text. Select 'Markdown format' from the dropdown menu below any text entry area.Go to your editor preferences (via the user menu) and select 'Plain text area'.To enter text simply type into the text entry area or text box, pressing the return key twice at the end of a paragraph to leave a blank line between the end of one paragraph and the start of the next. Markdown expands upon the simple text entry format available in Moodle by allowing you to easily add emphasis (bold, italics), structure (bullet points and headings) and links (to images or other web resources).