Table of Contents
- Section 1: Introduction
- Section 2: Basic Text Formatting
- Section 3: Lists
- Section 4: Links & Images
- Section 5: Code & Quotes
- Section 6: Conclusion & Credits
Section 4: Links & Images
Links
Having just text in your document is great, but there are many times when you will want to link to an external website. Fortunately, Markdown makes it easy to add hyperlinks to domains. Note that links formatted with Markdown are not supported by Discord.
If your link is simple, and all you wish to do is display the URL, you simply need to surround the target link with angled brackets < >. However, make sure to include the https:// tag:
<https://tc.emperorshammer.org>
However, if you want to format a link more, you will need two elements: the text and the link. The text is what is displayed on the page, and is surrounded by brackets [ ]. The next part is the link (URL) itself, which is surrounded by parentheses ( ). Some examples of links in action are shown below:
[Emperor's Hammer Tie Corps](https://tc.emperorshammer.org/news.php)
[EH Internet Office](https://ehnet.org/)
And links can be combined with the emphasis formatting covered earlier to bold, italicize, and strike through links.
***[Emperor's Hammer Discord](https://ehtc.chat)***
Images
Images are quite limited with their use in standard Markdown. However, you can add an image in a similar method to links, but preceded by an exclamation mark !. After, you have the alt text in brackets [ ] and the image the link (URL) in parentheses ( ):
There is additional formatting for images that can be achieved through a combination of Markdown and HTML, but that is outside the scope of this course, and only works with some interpreters. Note that images like this are not supported by Discord.