# hello, This is Markdown Live Preview

visit [markdownlivepreview.com](http://markdownlivepreview.com)

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## what is Markdown?
see [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown)

> Markdown is a lightweight markup language, originally created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz allowing people "to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML)".

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## usage
1. Write markdown text in this textarea.
2. Click 'HTML Preview' button.

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## markdown quick reference
# headers

*emphasis*

**strong**

* list

>block quote

    code (4 spaces indent)
[links](http://wikipedia.org)

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## changelog
* 17-Feb-2013 re-design
* 19-May-2011 launch

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## thanks
* [markdown-js](https://github.com/evilstreak/markdown-js)