A highlight
The deadline is ==Friday at noon==.The deadline is Friday at noon.
Highlight in Markdown. ==Like a marker pen==.
Wrap the text in two equals signs on each side: ==highlighted==. It isn’t in the original Markdown or GitHub’s, but many note apps support it, HushJot and Obsidian among them.
On the left, what you type. On the right, what you get. Every result here was rendered by HushJot itself.
Highlighting
With other formatting
==**Important:**== read this first.Important: read this first.
Subscript and superscript
H~2~O and E = mc^2^H2O and E = mc2
From the same family of extensions: one tilde for subscript, one caret for superscript.
Questions
Highlight, answered.
- How do I highlight text in Markdown?
- Write
==text==, in apps that support it. - Which apps support
==highlight==? - HushJot and Obsidian among others, and Typora once it is switched on in its settings. GitHub doesn’t; there, the equals signs show as text.
- What if my app doesn’t support it?
- Where HTML is allowed,
<mark>text</mark>works. Otherwise, use bold.
Write it, see it, keep it private.
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