Markdown guide · Links & images

Links

[Link text](https://address) makes a link.

Put the words to click in square brackets, then the address in round brackets right after them, with no space between.

Download it from [prosedown.com](https://prosedown.com).

Add a title in quotes after the address. Many apps show it as a tooltip.

[Prosedown](https://prosedown.com "The Markdown editor")

To show an address as a clickable link, wrap it in angle brackets. This works for email addresses too.

<https://prosedown.com> or <hello@example.com>

• Links can point to files next to your document: [the budget](budget.xlsx).
• Addresses with spaces need %20 in place of each space, or angle brackets around them: [notes](<my notes.md>).
• Bold, italic and code work inside the link text: [**Read this**](https://example.com).

Prosedown also links plain web addresses that start with https:// or www.. Some other apps don't, so angle brackets are the safer habit.

To link to a heading in the same document, use # and the heading's words in lowercase, with hyphens for spaces and punctuation left out. GitHub reads these the same way.

See the [budget](#budget-notes) below.

## Budget notes

In Styled Mode, click a link to follow it: web addresses open in your browser, email addresses in your mail program, and a heading link scrolls to that heading. To edit a link's text instead, drag across it or move the caret into it with the arrow keys.

For long addresses, or one address used many times, give the link a short label and define it once, anywhere in the document. The definition line doesn't show.

Read the [install guide][guide] first.

[guide]: https://prosedown.com/markdown-guide "Guide"