Markdown

The Markdown editor is for the help centres, knowledge bases, release notes and product pages that are written as Markdown text. It shows the text with its marks coloured, the preview as readers will see it, or both side by side, kept in step as either is scrolled. A toolbar and the usual keys set headings, bold, lists, task lists, quotes, code and links; Enter carries a list on, Tab moves between the cells of a table and lines it up, and a table has its own menu to add, move, align and sort its rows and columns. It reads standard Markdown with tables, task lists, strikethrough, footnotes and front matter.

As the text changes it is checked for what a reader would trip over - a heading level skipped, a picture without a description, a link to a heading that is not there, a footnote never written, a table row a cell short - and the outline lists the headings to jump between. HTML written in the text is kept only where it cannot run code. The article can be saved as Markdown, as a web page with its own stylesheet, as a Word document or as a tagged PDF with bookmarks, all made in the page; pictures pasted or dropped in go to the page's own upload function, and a fenced block can be drawn by the page itself.

Try it with your own Markdown files and pictures in confidence: they are opened by your browser, on your device. Nothing is uploaded, no copy reaches us or anyone else, and nothing is kept once you close this tab.