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Link to another page.

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Header 1

This is a normal paragraph following a header. GitHub is a code hosting platform for version control and collaboration. It lets you and others work together on projects from anywhere.

Header 2

This is a blockquote following a header.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Header 3

// Javascript code with syntax highlighting.
var fun = function lang(l) {
  dateformat.i18n = require('./lang/' + l)
  return true;
}

# Ruby code with syntax highlighting
GitHubPages::Dependencies.gems.each do |gem, version|
  s.add_dependency(gem, "= #{version}")
end

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Header 5
  1. This is an ordered list following a header.
  2. This is an ordered list following a header.
  3. This is an ordered list following a header.
Header 6

This is a very long link which wraps and therefore doesn’t overflow even when it comes at the beginning of the line.

head1 head two three
ok good swedish fish nice
out of stock good and plenty nice
ok good oreos hmm
ok good zoute drop yumm

There’s a horizontal rule below this.

Here is an unordered list:

And an ordered list:

  1. Item one
  2. Item two
  3. Item three
  4. Item four

And an ordered list, continued:

  1. Item one
  2. Item two

Some text

  1. Item three
  2. Item four

And an ordered list starting from 42:

  1. Item 42
  2. Item 43
  3. Item 44

And a nested list:

Nesting an ol in ul in an ol

And a task list

Nesting task lists

Nesting a ul in a task list

Nesting a task list in a ul

Small image

Large image

“Wroclaw University Library digitizing rare archival texts” by j_cadmus is marked with CC BY 2.0.

Labels

I’m a label

blue

green

purple

yellow

red

bold

italic

bold + italic

Definition lists can be used with HTML syntax.

Name
Godzilla
Born
1952
Birthplace
Japan
Color
Green

Multiple description terms and values

Term
Brief description of Term
Longer Term
Longer description of Term, possibly more than one line
Term
First description of Term, possibly more than one line

Second description of Term, possibly more than one line

Term1
Term2
Single description of Term1 and Term2, possibly more than one line
Term1
Term2
First description of Term1 and Term2, possibly more than one line

Second description of Term1 and Term2, possibly more than one line

More code

def dump_args(func):
    "This decorator dumps out the arguments passed to a function before calling it"
    argnames = func.func_code.co_varnames[:func.func_code.co_argcount]
    fname = func.func_name
    def echo_func(*args,**kwargs):
        print fname, ":", ', '.join(
            '%s=%r' % entry
            for entry in zip(argnames,args) + kwargs.items())
        return func(*args, **kwargs)
    return echo_func

@dump_args
def f1(a,b,c):
    print a + b + c

f1(1, 2, 3)

def precondition(precondition, use_conditions=DEFAULT_ON):
    return conditions(precondition, None, use_conditions)

def postcondition(postcondition, use_conditions=DEFAULT_ON):
    return conditions(None, postcondition, use_conditions)

class conditions(object):
    __slots__ = ('__precondition', '__postcondition')

    def __init__(self, pre, post, use_conditions=DEFAULT_ON):
        if not use_conditions:
            pre, post = None, None

        self.__precondition  = pre
        self.__postcondition = post

Long, single-line code blocks should not wrap. They should horizontally scroll if they are too long. This line should be long enough to demonstrate this.

Mermaid Diagrams

The following code is displayed as a diagram only when a mermaid key supplied in _config.yml.

graph TD;
    accTitle: the diamond pattern
    accDescr: a graph with four nodes: A points to B and C, while B and C both point to D
    A-->B;
    A-->C;
    B-->D;
    C-->D;

Collapsed Section

The following uses the <details> tag to create a collapsed section.

Shopping list (click me!)

This is content inside a <details> dropdown.