How to use Markdown

Markdown is a lightweight markup language which can be easily converted to HTML.

Gitiles reference guide

For the full reference guide for the version of Markdown used to render Chromium pages, see the reference for Gitiles Markdown.

Google style guide

Be sure to read the Google style guide for Markdown.

Local preview of changes

To see how the pages you edit will look, run the following command from your Chromium checkout (src/ directory) to start up a server on http://localhost:8080/:

python tools/md_browser/md_browser.py

You can then navigate to http://localhost:8080/blimp/README.md in your browser to see the result locally. Just refresh the page after saving a *.md file to see an updated result.