Editor

The documentation editor is a simple plain text editor. The text is formatted using the Markdown text formatting syntax. Markdown is a markup language designed to be as easy-to-read and easy-to-write as possible.

Markdown formatting tags

Paragraphs

A paragraph is one or more consecutive lines. Normal paragraphs should not be indented with spaces or tabs.

Emphasis

Two methods of text emphasis are available:

**Bold text** 
*Italic text* 

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Headers

There are two ways of creating headers with Markdown.

First and second level can be created by "underlining" the text with equal signs (=) and hyhens (-).

First level header 
================== 

Second level header 
------------------- 

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More levels of headers can be created by using one to five hash symbol (#) at the beginning of the line.

# First level header 

## Second level header 

### Third level header 

#### Fourth level header 

##### Fifth level header 

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Lists

Use asterisks, pluses, and hyphens to create an unordered bulleted list. These three markers are interchangable.

* Item 1 
* Item 2 
* Item 3 
or 
+ Item 1 
+ Item 2 
+ Item 3 
or 
- Item 1 
- Item 2 
- Item 3 

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Use regular numbers, followed by periods, to create an ordered bulleted list.

1. Item 1 
2. Item 2 
3. Item 3 

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Horizontal rulers

Use three undersocres, asterisks, or hyphens to create a horizontal ruler.

___ 
or 
*** 
or 
--- 

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Links

Use square brackets to delimit the text you want to turn into a link.

There are two ways of creating links: inline and reference.

Use parentheses immediately after the link text for inline-style links:

Navigate to the [Devolutions website](https://devolutions.net). 

Output:

Optionally a title attribute may be included in the parentheses.

Navigate to the [Devolutions website](https://devolutions.net "Website of Devolutions"). 

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For reference-style links, define the links elsewhere in the document, then refer to a link by its name in another set of square brackets.

Navigate to the [Devolutions website][mainwebsite] or the [Devolutions forum][forumwebsite]. 

[mainwebsite]: https://devolutions.net/ "Website of Devolutions" 
[forumwebsite]: https://forum.devolutions.net/ "Forum of Devolutions" 

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The title attribute is optional again. Link names may contain letters, numbers and spaces, but are not case sensitive.

Images

Image syntax is very similar to link syntax. Images must be added in the image manager before referencing them.

To add images in the image manager, click the Manage images button.

Click Add to select an image from the computer. Select the image in the list, and click Insert to place the image in the text.

Blockquotes

Quote a passage of text by inputting a greater-than (>) symbol at the beginning of the line of text.

> Quoted passage of text 

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Blockquotes can easily be nested.

> Quoted passage of text 
>> Nesting a quoted passage of text 

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Code examples

Inline code is created by enclosing the text in backthicks (`).

Inline `code`. 

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Code blocks are created be indenting the text with four spaces at the beginning of each lines There must have an empty line before.

    // Testing indented code
 
    var markdownAwesomeness = 0;
 
    if (indentedCodeWorks) {
          markdownAwesomeness++;
    }

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A specific syntax highlighting can be specified as well.

var s = "JavaScript syntax highlighting"; 
alert(s); 

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