What is Markdown in Jupyter Notebook with Examples

If you are new to Jupyter Notebook, one of the most useful things you should learn about is the Markdown apart from learning Python. It is a lightweight markup language that is supported by Jupyter Notebook for formatting text in cells.

Using the Markdown option for a cell, you can generate formatted text, including headings, lists, tables, links, images, and more.

This really helps you to add details about the cells and helps to document your Notebook in a rich way.

Getting Started with Markdown in Jupyter Notebook

The first thing you need to do is, create a new cell, and from the dropdown as you see in the below gif demo, select "Markdown"



Now whatever you type in the cell will be considered as a markup language text.

Adding headers H1 - H6

Just like we have the header tags in HTML, we have the options of headers from h1 (biggest text header) to h6 (smallest text header)

# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading 3
#### Heading 4
##### Heading 5
##### Heading 6



Just add # (hash) symbol before you start writing the header. The number of # you add will result in the respective header.

One # -> Header 1

Two # -> Header 2

Three # -> Header 3

Four # -> Header 4

Five # -> Header 5

Six # -> Header 6




Bold/Italic

This will look **bold

This will look *italic


If you know how to write HTML code, you can make use of the HTML tags in markup mode.

<h1>Heading 1<h1>
<hr>
This is <strongbold</strong>