A text file created with several syntaxes of a Markdown language is called a Markdown File. It makes use of plain text formatting consisting of inline text symbols for specifying how a text can be formatted.

How to open a markdown file offline?

Markdown files are of the extension "*.md" where * represents the file name. They can be opened offline using certain Chrome plugins like the “Markdown Preview Plus”. Visual Studio Code by Microsoft also allows the user to toggle between Markdown code and its preview. Or you can simply open it using Notepad/Notepad++ or WordPad software.

Online Markdown Editors:

There are many online Markdown editors in the market currently, which have soared in popularity due to their easy use case and a wide variety of features available. Some of the most popular ones are HackMD and StackEdit, which provide many features along with basic markdown, to render richly formatted content.

Advantages of Markdown Files:

Some of the advantages of Markdown are stated below:

• Richly Formatted content can be created relatively quickly.


• It has become the go-to language for creating documentation, because of its lightweight and platform-transferrable nature. Even Github readme files are created using Markdown, allowing them to be attractive to read(due to formatting) as well as lightweight in nature.