Customizing Your Manifold Layout with Markdown Content Blocks

Workshop Example Project

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This project contains examples of how to use Markdown in the Hero Block and Markdown Content Blocks. Nearly all Markdown applications support the basic syntax outlined in the original Markdown design document. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to add formatting elements to plaintext text documents.


Created by John Gruber in 2004, Markdown is now one of the world’s most popular markup languages. Using Markdown is different than using a WYSIWYG editor. In an application like Microsoft Word, you click buttons to format words and phrases, and the changes are visible immediately. Markdown isn’t like that. When you create a Markdown-formatted file, you add Markdown syntax to the text to indicate which words and phrases should look different.

Markdown on Wikipedia
Markdown on Wikipedia

Dustin Curtis, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

What Can You Do With Markdown?

Code

text `text`

Emphasis

bold **text**
italic *text*
these can be combined ***text***

Headings

h1 #

h2 ##

h3 ###

h4 ####

h5 #####
h6 ######

Horizontal rules (lines)

(add a blank line before and after) `***`

Images

![alt text](full url “title (optional)”)
Images must be available online (Wikimedia Commons, Manifold Project Resource, etc.)

Linked image

[![alt text](full url “title (optional)”)](full url)

Line breaks

Add at least two blank spaces at the end of a sentence but you will get better results using HTML use <br>

Links

[text](full url)

Quick url

https://cuny.manifoldapp.org <https://cuny.manifoldapp.org>

Email

rmiller2@gc.cuny.edu <rmiller2@gc.cuny.edu>

Lists

Ordered (numbered)

  1. 1. text
  2. 2. text
  3. 3. text

Unordered (bulleted)

  • - text
  • - text
  • - text

Image

MD

Linked Image

MD

Markdown+HTML - YouTube Video using <iframe>

Markdown+HTML - YouTube Video using <iframe> (responsive)

Markdown+HTML - Padlet using an <iframe>

Markdown+HTML - Audio Player using an <iframe>

Metadata

  • publisher
    Manifold @CUNY
  • publisher place
    New York, NY
  • rights
    Customizing Your Manifold Project Layout with Markdown Content Blocks by Robin Miller is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  • rights holder
    Robin Miller
  • rights territory
    US