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Markdown is plain text formatting
GitHub uses markdown for text-based documents, which is a type of language that is super lightweight and uses plain text formatting. This makes it much easier to learn than something like HTML. Markdown consists of simplistic syntax to format text and GitHub has a special type of markdown called GitHub Flavoured Markdown that includes a few extra features and allows for assets such as images or video to be used. If you've never used markdown before, you can check out the GitHub Docs for a guide to markdown formatting. The syntax uses symbols to format the text, making it much easier to learn than most programming languages.
For example, this is how headings are formatted:
# The largest heading
## The second largest heading
###### The smallest heading
Some examples of lightweight styling include:
**[words in here will be bold]**
_[words in here will be italics]_
GitHub Flavored Markdown is utilized in markdown files (*.md), Issues, comments, and Discussions. For those interested in advancing their knowledge of Markdown, the complete formal specification for Markdown syntax is available for review.
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