rare markdown syntax

rare markdown.md

markdown syntax I've never seen documented

Credit where credit is due: I saw the table align one first in Gemini output. Asked it if it knew more niche markdown tricks and learned all these.

table column align

Left-Aligned ⬅️	Center-Aligned ↔️	Right-Aligned ➡️
apple	This is text	100
orange	in the middle	10
banana	of the column	1

comment

a bit flaky support

some content with

a comment inbetween. gotta have the newlines around it. Some renderers don't require the # part

//: good enough comment for some renderers

highlight

rarely supported

• To draw attention to something: ==This is important!==
• To get a more widely supported effect, use html This is important!

footnote

not all renderers

Here is some text with a point that needs a reference.¹ The numbering is handled automatically. You can add another one right after.²

Other rare syntax that's sometimes hard to remember

collapsible

👉 Click here to see the details!

Here is the hidden content. It can be anything you want:

• A list
• A code block
• Images, etc.

Footnotes

1. This is the first footnote. ↩

2. This is the second one, identified by a name. ↩