Markdown Discuss - Aug 2015 - HTML Tags <=> Markdown Quick Reference @ Write Kit

It is vary unusual for Markdown parsers to return <b> and <i> tags.
Usually, <strong> and <emphasis> are used instead. See Babelmark for
an example:

http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/?normalize=1&text=*italic*+%26+**bold**

Also, most older implementations return XHTML Tags like <br /> and <hr
/> rather than there HTML counterparts. In the age of HTML5, this doesn't
really matter much (for most users), but back when they were first created it
was important to having valid XHTLM (the new hotness of the time). Of note is
the fact that <b> and <i> are not valid XHTML tags (IIRC). Thus the
use of <strong> and <emphasis>.

Waylan Limberg
> On Aug 4, 2015, at 5:16 AM, Gerald Bauer <gerald.bauer at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
>  I've started a quick reference that lists all HTML tag with Markdown
> "short codes" [1]. The tags include:
> 
> HTML                            | Notes
> ------------------------------- | ---------------------
> <h1>...</h1> - <h6>...</h6>     | Heading 1-6
> <p>...</p>                      | Paragraph
> <br>                            | Hard Line Break
> <i>...</i>                      | Italic Text (Emphasis)
> <b>...</b>                      | Bold Text (Strong Emphasis)
> <code>...</code>                | Code (Monospace Text)
> <del>...</del>                  | Deleted (Strikethrough) Text
> <ul>(<li>...</li>)+</ul>        | Unordered List
> <ol>(<li>...</li>)+</ol>        | Ordered
(Numbered) List
> <a href="...">...</a>           | Link
> <img src="..." alt="...">                   |
Image (with Alternative Text)
>
<table>(<tr>(<td>...</td>)+</tr>)+</table> 
| Table
> <pre><code>...</code></pre>                 |
Preformatted Code Block
> <blockquote>...<blockquote>                 | Blockquote
> <hr>                            | Horizontal Rule
> <!-- ... -->                    | Comments
> 
> 
>  Any tags missing? Let us know. Cheers
> 
> [1] https://github.com/writekit/quickrefs/blob/master/HTML.md
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Hello,

   Thanks great comments. I've update the quick reference and it reads now

   <i> or <emphasis>    and
   <b> or <strong>

   Thanks for the comments on XHTML - might add a footnote or
something.  The idea (target audience) of the reference is a HTML
coders new to Markdown (thus, <i> before <emphasis> e.g. less typing
etc. same for <br> and <br /> etc.)

   By the way, the quick reference is decidated to the public doman
(e.g. no copyright, no rights reserved) - (re)use and copy as you
please.  Note: I will try to put a static site together later this
week (using the same page, thanks to GitHub pages with built in
Markdown processing ;-)

  Cheers.