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Markdown

Markdown is an easy and powerful way to format your descriptions and long text fields using simple, natural syntax.

The basics

*italic* and **bold**
-> Creates italic and bold
An inline link: [Kumu](http://launch.kumupowered.com)
-> Creates an inline link: Kumu
Note that inline links always open the website in the same tab and direct your viewer away from your Kumu map. If you wish to open the link in a separate tab, you can use the following HTML syntax:
<a href="https://kumu.io" target="_blank">Kumu website</a>
Replace the URL with your own and swap the word "Kumu website" for any word(s) you'd like your viewers to click. Make sure that target= stays the same.
An auto-generated link: http://kumu.io
-> Creates an auto-generated link: https://kumu.io

Lists

* Milk
* Cookies
* Marshmallows
Looks like:
  • Milk
  • Cookies
  • Marshmallows
1. California
2. Texas
3. New York
Looks like:
  1. 1.
    California
  2. 2.
    Texas
  3. 3.
    New York
We also support linking to elements, connections and loops (even other maps in your account).
You can use the following syntax:
Selectors
[link text](= selector)
Replace link text with the text for your link, and replace selector with any valid selector.
Maps
[link text](#map-slug)
Replace link text with the text for your link, and replace map-slug with the slug of your map.
Views
[link text](#map-slug/view-slug)
Replace link text with the text for your link, replace map-slug with the slug of your map, and replace view-slug .with the slug of your view.

Images

![alt text](image-url)
Replace alt text with an image caption that screen readers can read, and replace image-url with a link to your image.

Widgets

See our guide to widgets to learn more about embedding videos, podcasts, slideshows, and other interactive content inside markdown.

Headings

# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading 3
#### Heading 4
##### Heading 5
###### Heading 6
Looks like:

Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

Heading 4
Heading 5
Heading 6
Learn how to create anchors that skip to certain sections of your map description with this guide.

Code

Simply indent lines with four spaces or wrap the code with three backticks:
```md
<div class="footer">
&copy; 2013 Kumu Systems LLC
</div>
```
Looks like:
<div class="footer">
&copy; 2013 Kumu Systems LLC
</div>

Blockquotes

> Add quote text here
Looks like:
Add quote text here

Tables

One | Two | Three
--- | --- | ---
Blue | White | Gray
Green | Yellow | Red
If you are using Markdown in the Description column of an import, you will have to use the HTML table tag rather than the usual Markdown syntax. Make sure to remove all line breaks from your HTML, or your table will render with a large white space above it.
<<<<<<< HEAD
=======
<<<<<<< HEAD
542c98f (GitBook: [#18] fixes some busted content in markdown docs)
One
Two
Three
Blue
White
Gray
Green
Yellow
Red
``` ======= | One | Two | Three | | ----- | ------ | ----- | | Blue | White | Gray | | Green | Yellow | Red |

Horizontal Rules

Three or more dashes or asterisks
---
***
Now you know the basics of formatting with markdown! For more information, visit Daring Fireball's markdown syntax documentation.

Inline HTML

Kumu's markdown editor also recognizes a limited amount of inline HTML.
Learn how to create anchors that skip to certain sections of your map description with this guide.
Here are the tags you can use in Kumu, anywhere that accepts markdown:
<a>
<aside>
<b>
<blockquote>
<br>
<caption>
<code>
<del>
<dd>
<dfn>
<div>
<dl>
<dt>
<em>
<h1>
<h2>
<h3>
<h4>
<h5>
<h6>
<hr>
<i>
<img>
<ins>
<kbd>
<li>
<ol>
<p>
<pre>
<q>
<samp>
<span>
<strike>
<strong>
<sub>
<sup>
<table>
<tbody>
<td>
<tfoot>
<th>
<thead>
<tr>
<tt>
<ul>
<var>
And here are the HTML attributes that use can use for each tag:
<a>
href
<img>
src
<div>
itemscope
itemtype
all tags
abbr
accept
accept-charset
accesskey
action
align
alt
axis
border
cellpadding
cellspacing
char
charoff
charset
checked
cite
clear
cols
colspan
color
compact
coords
datetime
dir
disabled
enctype
for
frame
headers
height
hreflang
hspace
ismap
label
lang
longdesc
maxlength
media
method
multiple
name
nohref
noshade
nowrap
prompt
readonly
rel
rev
rows
rowspan
rules
scope
selected
shape
size
span
start
summary
tabindex
target
title
type
usemap
valign
value
vspace
width
itemprop

LaTeX

Good news for people using Kumu in science, math, or academia—anywhere you write Markdown in Kumu, you can also write LaTeX to include equations!
You can write LaTeX inline or on its own separate line. To write inline, put two dollar signs on either side of your LaTeX code, like so:
24 minutes are $$\frac{24}{60}=0.4h$$ and $$\sin(30^o)=0.5$$
Here's what you would see:
rendered inline latex
Or, for more complex expressions, you can write inside a codeblock marked as latex, like so:
```latex
f(x) = \int_{-\infty}^\infty
\hat f(\xi)\,e^{2 \pi i \xi x}
\,d\xi
```
Here's what you would see:
rendered block latex
Kumu uses a tool called KaTeX to render these equations. For a full list of supported equations, visit the KaTeX docs.