---
title: "Markdown Cheat Sheet – How to Write Articles in Markdown Language"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/markdown-cheat-sheet-how-to-write-articles-in-markdown-language-wwhph9hji
source_url: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/markdown-cheatsheet/
type: article
source: "freeCodeCamp"
author: "Kealan"
published: 2022-08-23T01:05:37.436Z
updated: 2022-08-23T01:05:37.326Z
tags: ["html", "markdown"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 20
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# Markdown Cheat Sheet – How to Write Articles in Markdown Language

**[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · [@kealan](https://daily.dev/kealan) · 5 min read · 20 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

Markdown Cheat Sheet includes six markdown headers, H1 thorough to H6. The ways you commonly add emphasis with text are bold, italics and strikethroughs. You can use regular HTML in Markdown documents (depending on the parser that's being used) So feel free to just input any valid HTML you like. If you want to add a horizontal line to divide up sections of a document, you can make one like this.

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**@chacalon** · 1 upvotes

> thanks so much, I going to write my first article, and this it is gold for me.

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