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Markdown Features

Docusaurus supports Markdown and a few additional features.

Front Matter​

Markdown documents have metadata at the top called Front Matter:

my-doc.md
---
id: my-doc-id
title: My document title
description: My document description
slug: /my-custom-url
---

## Markdown heading

Markdown text with [links](./hello.md)

Regular Markdown links are supported, using url paths or relative file paths.

Let's see how to [Create a page](/create-a-page).
Let's see how to [Create a page](./create-a-page.md).

Result: Let's see how to Create a page.

Images​

Regular Markdown images are supported.

You can use absolute paths to reference images in the static directory (static/img/docusaurus.png):

![Docusaurus logo](/img/docusaurus.png)

Docusaurus logo

You can reference images relative to the current file as well. This is particularly useful to colocate images close to the Markdown files using them:

![Docusaurus logo](./img/docusaurus.png)

Code Blocks​

Markdown code blocks are supported with Syntax highlighting.

```jsx title="src/components/HelloDocusaurus.js" showLineNumbers
function HelloDocusaurus() {
  return <h1>Hello, Docusaurus!</h1>;
}
```
```` showLineNumbers

```jsx title="src/components/HelloDocusaurus.js" showLineNumbers
function HelloDocusaurus() {
  return <h1>Hello, Docusaurus!</h1>;
}
```

## Admonitions

Docusaurus has a special syntax to create admonitions and callouts:

```md showLineNumbers
:::tip[My tip]

Use this awesome feature option

:::

:::danger[Take care]

This action is dangerous

:::
```

:::tip[My tip]

Use this awesome feature option

:::

:::danger[Take care]

This action is dangerous

:::

## MDX and React Components

[MDX](https://mdxjs.com/) can make your documentation more **interactive** and allows using any **React components inside Markdown**:

```jsx showLineNumbers
export const Highlight = ({children, color}) => (
  <span
    style={{
      backgroundColor: color,
      borderRadius: '20px',
      color: '#fff',
      padding: '10px',
      cursor: 'pointer',
    }}
    onClick={() => {
      alert(`You clicked the color ${color} with label ${children}`)
    }}>
    {children}
  </span>
);

This is <Highlight color="#25c2a0">Docusaurus green</Highlight> !

This is <Highlight color="#1877F2">Facebook blue</Highlight> !
```

export const Highlight = ({children, color}) => (
  <span
    style={{
      backgroundColor: color,
      borderRadius: '20px',
      color: '#fff',
      padding: '10px',
      cursor: 'pointer',
    }}
    onClick={() => {
      alert(`You clicked the color ${color} with label ${children}`);
    }}>
    {children}
  </span>
);

This is <Highlight color="#25c2a0">Docusaurus green</Highlight> !

This is <Highlight color="#1877F2">Facebook blue</Highlight> !