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Astro Cactus

A post of Markdown elements

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Horizontal Rules




Emphasis

This is bold text

This is italic text

Strikethrough

Quotes

”Double quotes” and ‘single quotes’

Blockquotes

Blockquotes can also be nested…

…by using additional greater-than signs right next to each other…

References

An example containing a clickable reference1 with a link to the source.

Second example containing a reference2 with a link to the source.

If you check out this example in src/content/post/markdown-elements/index.md, you’ll notice that the references and the heading “Footnotes” are added to the bottom of the page via the remark-rehype plugin.

Lists

Unordered

  • Create a list by starting a line with +, -, or *
  • Sub-lists are made by indenting 2 spaces:
    • Marker character change forces new list start:
      • Ac tristique libero volutpat at
      • Facilisis in pretium nisl aliquet
      • Nulla volutpat aliquam velit
  • Very easy!

Ordered

  1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

  2. Consectetur adipiscing elit

  3. Integer molestie lorem at massa

  4. You can use sequential numbers…

  5. …or keep all the numbers as 1.

Start numbering with offset:

  1. foo
  2. bar

Code

Inline code

Indented code

// Some comments
line 1 of code
line 2 of code
line 3 of code

Block code “fences”

Sample text here...

Syntax highlighting

var foo = function (bar) {
return bar++;
};
console.log(foo(5));

Expressive code examples

Adding a title

file.js
console.log("Title example");

A bash terminal

Terminal window
echo "A base terminal example"

Highlighting code lines

line-markers.js
function demo() {
console.log("this line is marked as deleted");
// This line and the next one are marked as inserted
console.log("this is the second inserted line");
return "this line uses the neutral default marker type";
}

Expressive Code can do a ton more than shown here, and includes a lot of customisation.

Tables

OptionDescription
datapath to data files to supply the data that will be passed into templates.
engineengine to be used for processing templates. Handlebars is the default.
extextension to be used for dest files.

Right aligned columns

OptionDescription
datapath to data files to supply the data that will be passed into templates.
engineengine to be used for processing templates. Handlebars is the default.
extextension to be used for dest files.

Images

Image in the same folder: src/content/post/markdown-elements/logo.png

Astro theme cactus logo

Image in the aliased assets folder: src/assets/about-astro.png

A cartoon cactus looking at the Astro.build logo

Content from markdown-it

Footnotes

  1. Reference first footnote with a return to content link.

  2. Second reference with a link.