Overview#

Markdown has been around since 2004. One fateful day in December, John Gruber published his spec and first version of the Markdown parser. Since that day (it was a Friday), Markdown has grown wildly in popularity, and today has become the de facto standard format for writing portable content.

Back in 2004 there was just one flavor: John's. Today's landscape has many variations, parsers, extensions, and standards groups. The most widely accepted feature set is Github-Flavored Markdown, or GFM for short.

Statamic uses the League\CommonMark library to support GFM, to enable tables, special attributes like classes and ids on block-level elements, and fenced code blocks.

Data Structure#

The data will be saved exactly as written – a Markdown string.

## Overview

This is the Markdown fieldtype. It's for writing [](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/Markdown](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/), an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format that magically transforms into HTML.

Templating#

The Markdown content will be automatically transformed into HTML through augmentation. You need only use the variable and the rest is done for you.

{{ content }}

{!! $content !!}

<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>This is the Markdown fieldtype. It's for writing <a href="https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/">Markdown</a>, an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format that magically transforms into HTML.</p>

Dark Mode#

The Markdown fieldtype also has a dark mode when in fullscreen for those of you who like that sort of thing.

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