Github Readme Syntax Code

Centering and aligning images in GitHub readmes using the deprecated HTML align attribute: This works in any GitHub.md markdown file, such as a GitHub readme.md file. It relies on the deprecated HTML align attribute, but still works fine. A CSS and SASS stylesheet to add custom syntax highlighting your GitHub Gists embedded web pages. Links to additional highlight stylesheets. GitHub Flavored Markdown. GitHub.com uses its own version of the Markdown syntax that provides an additional set of useful features, many of which make it easier to work with content on GitHub.com. Note that some features of GitHub Flavored Markdown are only available in the descriptions and comments of Issues and Pull Requests.

Share samples of code with fenced code blocks and enabling syntax highlighting.

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Fenced code blocks

You can create fenced code blocks by placing triple backticks ``` before and after the code block. We recommend placing a blank line before and after code blocks to make the raw formatting easier to read.

Tip: To preserve your formatting within a list, make sure to indent non-fenced code blocks by eight spaces.

Syntax highlighting

You can add an optional language identifier to enable syntax highlighting in your fenced code block.

For example, to syntax highlight Ruby code:

Readme Syntax Github Example

We use Linguist to perform language detection and to select third-party grammars for syntax highlighting. You can find out which keywords are valid in the languages YAML file.

How To Write Readme Github

Further reading

• 'Basic writing and formatting syntax'