This is not a real article. It exists purely to test how Markdown renders in blog posts on this site — headings, emphasis, lists, code blocks, tables, blockquotes, and everything else.

Headings

h1 Heading

h2 Heading

h3 Heading

h4 Heading

h5 Heading

h6 Heading

Horizontal Rules

Emphasis

This is bold text

This is italic text

Strikethrough

Blockquotes

Blockquotes can also be nested…

…by using additional greater-than signs right next to each other…

…or with spaces between arrows.

Lists

Unordered

• Create a list by starting a line with +, -, or *
• Sub-lists are made by indenting 2 spaces:
  • Marker character change forces new list start:
    • Ac tristique libero volutpat at
    • Facilisis in pretium nisl aliquet
    • Nulla volutpat aliquam velit
• Very easy!

Ordered

1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
2. Consectetur adipiscing elit
3. Integer molestie lorem at massa

Start numbering with offset:

57. foo
58. bar

Code

Inline code

Fenced, no language:

1
Sample text here...

Fenced, with language and title:

1
var foo = function (bar) {
2
  return bar++;
3
};
4

5
console.log(foo(5));

Fenced, shell:

1
pnpm install && pnpm dev

Tables

Right aligned columns:

Links

Link text

Link with title

Images

Co-located image (relative path, same folder as the post):

External image (absolute URL):

Emoji

Shortcodes:

Emoticons:

Mermaid Diagrams

Inline HTML

Date chip — source: <span class="date-chip">1 April</span>

Rendered: 1 April

Footnotes

Here is a sentence with a footnote.¹

And another with a second one.²

Not currently supported

The following features are not enabled in this setup. They are documented here for reference and may be added in a future update.

Typographic replacements

The typographer option (smart quotes, -- em-dashes, (c) → ©) is not enabled. These render as literal characters:

(c) (r) (tm) — ---

“Double quotes” and ‘single quotes’ are not smart-quoted.

Subscript / Superscript

Requires markdown-it-sub / markdown-it-sup. Not installed.

• 19^th^ (superscript — renders as literal)
• H2O (subscript — renders as literal)

Inserted text

Requires markdown-it-ins. Not installed.

++Inserted text++ (renders as literal)

Marked / highlighted text

Requires markdown-it-mark. Not installed.

==Marked text== (renders as literal)

Definition lists

Requires markdown-it-deflist. Not installed.

Term 1 : Definition 1

Abbreviations

Requires markdown-it-abbr. Not installed.

*[HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language

Custom containers

Requires markdown-it-container. Not installed.

::: warning here be dragons :::