Preformatted Text
There are two ways to use preformatted text withing your Markdown document:
- By using indentation
- By using one or more backticks at the beginning and the end of a preformatted section
Using indentation
You can preformat a section of text or code by indenting the code with 4 or more spaces or a tab:
this
is
displayed
as
preformatted
It is not possible to add a rendering hint. It is not possible to preformat text within a line using this syntax.
Using backticks
You can preformat a section of text by starting a section of text with one or more backtick characters.
this
is
displayed
as
preformatted
You can also preformat a section of text within a line using the backtick syntax.
The following text is for example preformatted by using the backtick syntax.
Rendering hints
Sometime renders use hints to syntax highlight the code in a preformatted section.
To provide a hint, simple add the language name at the end of the introductory backtick(s).
For example using shell as hint will tell the renderer that the given code can be highlighted as shell script:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Hello world"The same would be rendered without syntax highlighting if the hint is not given:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Hello world"
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