Basic writing and formatting syntax - GitHub Docs
Create sophisticated formatting for your prose and code on GitHub with simple syntax.
Creating and highlighting code blocks - GitHub Docs
You can add an optional language identifier to enable syntax highlighting in your fenced code block. Syntax highlighting changes the color and style of source code to make it easier to read.
Getting started with writing and formatting on GitHub
Create sophisticated formatting for your prose and code on GitHub with simple syntax.
Working with advanced formatting - GitHub Docs
Formatting like tables, syntax highlighting, and automatic linking allows you to arrange complex information clearly in your pull requests, issues, and comments.
Writing on GitHub
You can structure the information shared on GitHub with various formatting options.
Creating an issue - GitHub Docs
Locate the code you want to reference in an issue: To open an issue about code in a file, navigate to the file. To open an issue about code in a pull request, navigate to the pull request and click …
Quickstart for writing on GitHub
Markdown is an easy-to-read, easy-to-write language for formatting plain text. You can use Markdown syntax, along with some additional HTML tags, to format your writing on GitHub, in …
About writing and formatting on GitHub
Markdown is an easy-to-read, easy-to-write language for formatting plain text. We've added some custom functionality to create GitHub Flavored Markdown, used to format prose and code …
Keyboard shortcuts - GitHub Docs
If you view a code file in a repository using the Code view and click on any line in the file, you will see a cursor. You can then navigate within the content of the file, also known as a blob (binary …
Working with non-code files - GitHub Docs
GitHub can display several common image formats, including PNG, JPG, GIF, PSD, and SVG. In addition to simply displaying them, there are several ways to compare differences between …