Markdown

Hugo supports Markdown syntax for formatting text, creating lists, and more. This page will show you some of the most common Markdown syntax examples.

Markdown Examples

Styling Text

StyleSyntaxExampleOutput
Bold**bold text****bold text**bold text
Italic*italicized text*`italicized textitalicized text
Strikethrough~~strikethrough text~~~~strikethrough text~~strikethrough text
Subscript<sub></sub>This is a <sub>subscript</sub> textThis is a subscript text
Superscript<sup></sup>This is a <sup>superscript</sup> textThis is a superscript text

Blockquotes

Blockquote with attribution

Don’t communicate by sharing memory, share memory by communicating.
Rob Pike1

Tables

Tables aren’t part of the core Markdown spec, but Hugo supports them out-of-the-box.

NameAge
Bob27
Alice23

Inline Markdown within tables

ItalicsBoldCode
italicsboldcode

Code Blocks

Lists

Ordered List

  1. First item
  2. Second item
  3. Third item

Unordered List

  • List item
  • Another item
  • And another item

Nested list

  • Fruit
    • Apple
    • Orange
    • Banana
  • Dairy
    • Milk
    • Cheese

Images

With caption:

Unsplash Landscape

Configuration

Hugo uses Goldmark for Markdown parsing. Markdown rendering can be configured in hugo.yaml under markup.goldmark. Below is the default configuration for Hextra:

hugo.yaml
markup:
  goldmark:
    renderer:
      unsafe: true
  highlight:
    noClasses: false

For more configuration options, see Hugo documentation on Configure Markup.

Learning Resources


  1. The above quote is excerpted from Rob Pike’s talk during Gopherfest, November 18, 2015. ↩︎

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