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Using lists

Using lists - Markdown Tutorial

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Using lists

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- [Instructor] Lists are a common way to organize items in markdown, and they couldn't be easier. The thing is, you probably already do lists in your texts without having to think about them. When you type in a series of hyphens into some text, it'll become a list. You can see that these hyphens will generate indented lists with bullet points. Now, instead of hyphens, you can type in a number of different characters. You can even use plus signs and they'll render in the same way. Now, if you do mix and match them, they will create different sets of lists. So if I change this one right here to minuses, you can see that this particular renderer puts these two items in a separate list, and this one's also in a separate list, and this one is on a separate list as well. The same thing will happen if you add some spaces in between each of the items. So if I do this, you'll see that they'll become different sets of lists. Even though they just look like regular lists, they're technically…

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