Markdown Syntax Guide

XL Release allows your to style your text using Markdown syntax. Markdown is a way to indicate headers, hyperlink, italics, and so on in your text. In XL Release, markdown is supported in task descriptions and comments.

This manual provides a brief overview of the most common Markdown commands.

Headers

When you start a line with one or more # characters, it becomes a header.

# Header 1

## Header 2

###### Header 6

Hyperlinks

The simplest way to create a clickable hyperlink is to enter a web site address starting with http://.

Visit our documentation at http://docs.xebialabs.com/xl-release/

You can also create a link text as follows:

Please visit [the XebiaLabs website](http://xebialabs.com/)

Bold and italic

To italicize text, surround it with a single underscore (_). For bold, use a double asterisk (*).

Choose between **bold** and _italic_.

Lists

To create a bulleted list, begin each list item with an asterisk (*) followed by a space.

Bullet list:
* One item
* Another item

To create a numbered list, begin each list item with a number and a period (.). The numbering does not have to be exact, Markdown will calculate the proper order for you.

Numbered list:
1. First item
2. Second item
10. Last item

More information

Markdown has more options. For a full explanation, refer to the Markdown guide by John Gruber.