Markdown headings use to display headings and subheadings on an HTML page. HTML contains various heading tags Such as H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 types.
Multiple ways to create a Heading and Subheading.
There are three ways to create a heading in markdown
- using hash
#
sign One way is to add hash#
sign and space, followed by heading string, . hash symbole count represents the subheadingtypes
# heading1 example
## heading2 example
### heading3 example
#### heading4 example
##### heading5 example
###### heading6 example
Second way is to use three equal or hyphen symbol another way is to add minimum three equal or hyphen symbols below the header string as given below as given below
heading1 === heading1 --- heading2 ==== heading2 ----
use direct html heading tags Since markdown is parsed to html, so we can also use direct html heading tags such as h1,h2
<h1>heading1</h1> <h2>heading2</h2> <h3>heading3</h3> <h4>heading4</h4> <h5>heading5</h5> <h6>heading6</h6>
Markdown heading examples
Markdown | Generated HTML | Browser rendered |
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# Heading1 | <h1>Heading1</h1> | Heading1 |
## Heading1 | <h2>Heading1</h2> | ## Heading2 |
### Heading1 | <h3>Heading1</h3> | ### Heading2 |
#### Heading1 | <h4>Heading1</h4> | ### Heading2 |
##### Heading1 | <h5>Heading1</h5> | ### Heading2 |
###### Heading1 | <h6>Heading1</h6> | ### Heading2 |
####### Heading1 | <h7>Heading1</h7> | ### Heading2 |
Here is an example for markdown heading1 in multiple ways
# heading
heading1
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heading2
=====
heading2
----
How to display markdown heading HTML text content
Sometimes, Documentation needs to include HTML tags contained in the headings tag.
<div> test content</div>
As per the above, an h3 tag contains a div tag. The HTML content needs to replace with encoding characters in the heading tag with markdown syntax.
### <div> test content <div>
How do you add a heading in Markdown?
There are three ways to create a heading in markdown
- using hash
#
sign One way is to add hash#
sign before heading string. hash sign count represents the subheading.
# heading1
## heading2
and so on
use equal or hyphen symbol another way is to add minimum three equal or hyphen symbols
heading1 === heading1 --- and so on
use direct html heading tags Since markdown is parsed to html, so we can also use direct html heading tags such as h1,h2
<h1>heading1</h1>
How many headings are in a Markdown?
There are six type of heading tags in markdown, It specify count of hash symbols represents heading level. Generated html heading tags are h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h5.
How do you add a subheading in Markdown?
Markdown heading tags are represented with hash symbol.
For example, #
with string represents heading tag(h1)
and ‘##’ with string represents subheading tag(h2)
hash symbol count represents sub heading tags
It uses two different syntaxes to create a header tag.
- Structure enhanced text - setext syntax
- structure true text - atx syntax
setext header styles syntax
setext syntax contains he
Heading Type | Rendered HTML | displayed on the browser |
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Heading one
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