Markdown code block sections languages definitions18.06.24

# Example

```rust
 fn main() {
    println!("Helloworld!");
}
```

Markdown Code Block: Including Code In .md Files
January 11, 2022

Markdown has support for code blocks. There are three ways to include A Markdown code block in your document:

Inline code blocks
    Fenced code blocks
    Indented code blocks

In this article, I’ll demonstrate all three ways to include code in a Markdown document.
Markdown inline code block

For starters, Markdown allows you to include inline code in your document. Inline code is surrounded by backticks (`). For example:

Use `print("Hello, world!")` to print a message to the screen.

Inline code is useful to mention a piece of code in a document. For example, you might want to mention the print function in a document like above. Most of the time, this code won’t be highlighted by the syntax highlighter, however.
Fenced code blocks

A fenced code block is a block of code that is surrounded by three backticks (“`) and an optional language specifier. In the most basic form, you can leave out the language specifier. For example:

Some regular text here, and here's the code example:

```
print("Hello, world!")
for i in range(10):
    print(i)
```

Enable syntax highlighting

To enable syntax highlighting for your Markdown code block, you need to specify the language right after the first three backticks, like so:

Some regular text here, and here's the code example:

```python
print("Hello, world!")
for i in range(10):
    print(i)
```

Both examples above will be rendered as a code block in the document. If a language is specified like in the first example, the syntax highlighter will be enabled for the selected language.

For a list of commonly available languages, see to list at the bottom of this article.
Indented code blocks

If fenced code blocks are an option for your specific Markdown parser, I recommend using them because you can specify the language of the code block.

The most basic markdown syntax for indented code blocks is to start a line with four spaces. This will be rendered as a code block in the document and is supported by all Markdown parsers. For example:

Here's some regular text. And now a code block:

print("Hello, world!")
    if True:
        print('true!')

The upside of this method is that it is supported by pretty much all Markdown parsers, as far as I know. However, there are some downsides to using indented code blocks as well:

You can’t specify a language, so most likely you won’t have syntax highlighting.
    Indented code blocks are less convient to insert in your document.

If possible, I strongly suggest using fenced code blocks.
Markdown code block language list

Which languages are supported, heavily depends on the Markdown parser you’re using. What follows here, is a list of many common languages and formats that you can try. If your language isn’t in here, I suggest you simply try if it is supported. Alternatively, visit the documentation of your specific Markdown.

Here’s the list of commonly supported languages on sites like GitHub:

actionscript3
    apache
    applescript
    asp
    brainfuck
    c
    cfm
    clojure
    cmake
    coffee-script, coffeescript, coffee
    cpp – C++
    cs
    csharp
    css
    csv
    bash
    diff
    elixir
    erb – HTML + Embedded Ruby
    go
    haml
    http
    java
    javascript
    json
    jsx
    less
    lolcode
    make – Makefile
    markdown
    matlab
    nginx
    objectivec
    pascal
    PHP
    Perl
    python
    profile – python profiler output
    rust
    salt, saltstate – Salt
    shell, sh, zsh, bash – Shell scripting
    scss
    sql
    svg
    swift
    rb, jruby, ruby – Ruby
    smalltalk
    vim, viml – Vim Script
    volt
    vhdl
    vue
    xml – XML and also used for HTML with inline CSS and Javascript
    yaml

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