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Markdown Emphasis Guide: Bold, Italic, and Strikethrough

Vishnu
By Vishnu
Markdown Emphasis Guide: Bold, Italic, and Strikethrough

Emphasis

  • Formatting of text is very important feature for better view of the text.

  • It increase user readability and provide clear layout of the document.

  • Markdown also provide different formatting style.

Bold

to make the word bold we have to add two asterisks * before and after the word.

Example :

Bold Text

<b> Bold Text </b>
  • we can also use underscore __ instead of asterisks.

Example :

Bold Text

Italic

to give the effect of italic to the text add one asterisks * around the word.

Example :

Italic Text

<i> Italic Text </i>
  • we can also use underscore _ instead of asterisks.

Example :

Italic Text


we can apply both bold and italic effect together by using three asterisks * or underscore _ around the word.

Example :

Bold and Italic

Bold and Italic

Bold and Italic

Bold and Italic

<b><i> Bold and Italic </i></b>

Strike Through

this command will make a horizontal line over the text. to give this effect to text we’ll use two tilde ~ around the word.

Example :

StrikeThrough

<strike> Strike Tag  </strike>

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Vishnu

Founder & Principal Architect at MeshWorld. Senior engineer and instructor specializing in AI agent systems, scalable web architecture, and modern development workflows.

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