Jekyll Markdown Features

This document demonstrates all major Markdown features supported by Jekyll.
Jekyll uses kramdown as its default Markdown engine (unless configured otherwise).

Headings

H1

H2

H3

H4

H5

H6

Emphasis

• Italic or Italic
• Bold or Bold
• Bold & Italic
• Strikethrough (GFM)

Lists

Unordered List

• Item 1
• Item 2
  • Subitem
    • Sub-subitem

Ordered List

1. First
2. Second
   1. Subitem
   2. Subitem

Links

• Inline link
• Reference link
• https://github.com

Images

Code

Inline Code

Use the jekyll serve command.

Code Block

Fenced (with syntax highlighting)

def hello
  puts 'Hello, Jekyll!'
end

Indented

def hello
  puts 'Hello from indent!'
end

Blockquotes

“Jekyll is a static site generator.” — GitHub

Tables (GFM)

Task Lists (GFM)

• Write Markdown
• Push to GitHub
• Celebrate 🎉

Emoji (GFM)

:smile: :rocket: :octocat:

Horizontal Rule

HTML Support

You can use raw HTML:

Liquid Tags (Jekyll-specific)

Variables

Markdown-test — May 25, 2025

Control Structures

Author: ItsZariep

Include

<!--Your personal box at the end of each post-->

<div class="userbox">
	<img class="userpic" src="/Tessera/assets/img/authors/ItsZariep.webp" alt="Avatar">
	<div class="userbox-content">
		<h1>ItsZariep</h1>
		<h3>
		Cool Duckription🦆️
	
</h3>
		<a href="/Tessera/about/ItsZariep">About me</a>
	</div>
</div>
<br>

Highlight Tag (Jekyll/kramdown)

<div>Hello Jekyll!</div>

Footnotes

Here’s a sentence with a footnote.¹

Abbreviations

*[HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language

HTML is a markup language.

Definitions

Apple

A fruit.

Orange

Another fruit.

Math (if using a plugin or MathJax)

E = mc^2

Or inline: $a^2 + b^2 = c^2$

TOC (with plugin or Liquid)

• Table of Contents {:toc}

Conclusion

This page covers all standard and extended Markdown features that are usable in a Jekyll site, including support for:

• GitHub-Flavored Markdown (GFM)
• Jekyll’s Liquid templating
• Raw HTML
• Syntax highlighting

Customize your _config.yml to enable additional plugins or alter Markdown behavior.