Markdown is a simple and lightweight formatting language used to style text on the web. It provides a way to add basic formatting elements to plain text, such as headers, bold and italic text, lists, links, and images. You can think of it as a set of simple instructions that tell a computer how to display your text in a more visually appealing way.
Using Markdown is quite straightforward. Instead of using complex HTML tags or other formatting syntax, you can write your text with special characters and symbols to indicate the desired formatting. For example, to create a heading, you can start a line with one or more hash symbols (#). The number of hash symbols determines the level of the heading, with one being the highest level and six the lowest.
Here's an example of a Markdown heading:
# This is a top-level heading