Markdown Emphasis

Markdown Bold

There are 2 different way to bold a text in Markdown.

• Use two asteriks before and after a word or phrase
• Use two underscores before and after a word or phrase

Markdown	HTML Equivalent	Rendered Output
**I am Bold text**	<strong>I am Bold text</strong>	I am Bold text
This is a **bold text**	This is a <strong>bold text</strong>	This is a bold text
This is a __bold text__.	This is a <strong>bold text</strong>	This is a bold text.
I**love**Markdown	I<strong>love</strong>Markdown	IloveMarkdown

Best Practices

The best practice is to use double asterik instead of doubele underscore to bold the text. Not all the applications supports double underscore if you want to bold words in middle.

✅ Do this	❌ Don't do this
I**am**bold	I__am__bold

Markdown Italics

There are 2 different way to italicize a text in Markdown.

• Use single asterik before and after a word or phrase
• Use single underscore before and after a word or phrase

Markdown	HTML Equivalent	Rendered Output
*I am Italicized text*	<em>I am Italicized text</em>	I am Italicized text
This is a *Italicized text*	This is a <em>Italicized text</em>	This is a Italicized text
This is a _Italicized text_.	This is a <em>Italicized text</em>	This is a Italicized text.
I*love*Markdown	I<em>love</em>Markdown	IloveMarkdown

Best Practices

The best practice is to use single asterik instead of single underscore to Italicize the text. Not all the applications supports underscore if you want to Italicize words in middle.

✅ Do this	❌ Don't do this
I*am*Italicized	I_am_Italicized

Markdown Strikethrough

Strikethrough also known as crossed out text indicates the text is not longer required or to be removed. You can strikethrough the text by putting a horizontal line through the center of the text. This is an example of strikethrough text.

In markdown you can strikethrough the text by using two tildes before and after a word or phrase.

Markdown	HTML Equivalent	Rendered Output
~~This is mistaken text~~	<s>This is mistaken text</s>	This is mistaken text
This is a ~~mistaken text~~	This is a <s>mistaken text</s>	This is a Mistaken Text
I~~don't~~loveMarkdown	I<s>don't</s>loveMarkdown	Idon'tloveMarkdown

Markdown Underline

Markdown does not have a defined syntax to underline the text.

For any markup that is not covered by Markdown’s syntax, you simply use HTML itself. There’s no need to preface it or delimit it to indicate that you’re switching from Markdown to HTML; you just use the tags.