Hello, World!

June 7, 2026

A comprehensive demonstration of standard Markdown features.

Headings

H1 — Page Title

H2 — Major Section

H3 — Subsection

H4 — Sub-subsection

H5 — Minor heading

H6 — Smallest heading

Emphasis

Plain text, bold text, italic text, bold and italic, and strikethrough.

You can also use inline code to highlight short snippets.

Lists

Unordered

• Item one
• Item two
  • Nested item A
  • Nested item B
    • Deeply nested item
• Item three

Ordered

1. First step
2. Second step
   1. Sub-step one
   2. Sub-step two
3. Third step

Links & Images

OpenStreetMap — an inline link.

Anthropic — a reference-style link.

Code

Inline

Use println!("Hello, World!") to print in Rust.

Fenced Block (Rust)

fn main() {
    let greeting = "Hello, World!";
    println!("{}", greeting);
}

Fenced Block (Python)

def greet(name: str) -> str:
    return f"Hello, {name}!"

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print(greet("World"))

Fenced Block (Shell)

echo "Hello, World!"

Tables

Column alignment can be controlled with colons in the separator row:

Blockquotes

“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”

— F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit

Nested blockquotes:

Outer quote.

Inner quote nested one level.

Inner quote nested two levels.

Horizontal Rules

Three or more hyphens, asterisks, or underscores on their own line:

Task Lists

• Write the Hello World template
• Include code blocks
• Add a table
• Render it in a Markdown viewer
• Extend with project-specific content

Footnotes

Standard Markdown footnotes¹ are supported in many renderers such as GitHub and Pandoc.²

Escaping Special Characters

Use a backslash to escape Markdown syntax: *not italic*, `not code`, [not a link].

HTML (where supported)

End of template. Happy writing!