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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
// highlight-start
---
id: my-doc-id
title: My document title
description: My document description
slug: /my-custom-url
---
// highlight-end

## 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.

Code Blocks

Markdown code blocks are supported with Syntax highlighting.

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

Admonitions

Docusaurus has a special syntax to create admonitions and callouts:

:::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 can make your documentation more interactive and allows using any React components inside Markdown:

import { Highlight } from '../../../src/components/mdx-highlight';

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

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

This is !

This is !

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