---
title: "Markdown"
source: 18F Guides
source_url: https://github.com/18F/guides
licence: CC0-1.0
domain: engineering
subdomain: 18f-guides
date_added: 2026-04-25
---

["Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format."](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) 

Use [Prettier](https://prettier.io/) for automatic code formatting.
