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<\/a><\/p>\nI just had to jump in on this! \ud83d\ude42<\/em> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Consider someone starting from scratch trying to learn either. Would you rather explain that to bold something you have to put The point was made that MD is different ways for different things. You need an ending # for a title or you don\u2019t, but HTML is the same. You have to use <a blah>blah<\/a> but you don\u2019t have <br>(what was that funny thing for a space?)<\/br> It\u2019s just I can tell, Allison, you haven\u2019t spent a ton of time in live chat, especially old school before \ud83d\ude42 turned into animated graphical smiley faces. \u201cBack in the day\u201d it was just natural when you were \u201ctalking\u201d rapid fire in a \u201croom\u201d with several people to say you *really* mean it or to _set something apart_ with stuff that looks suspiciously like markdown syntax. <\/p>\n Of course the more advanced syntax like for links is bizarro world to you because you don\u2019t use it often, if ever. How bizarre was the first time you did: If you just want to bust out some text with a little formatting then Markdown is hard to beat.<\/p>\n The bottom line is, as always, what Bart said – does it scratch an itch? If you write a lot and want it to look nice with almost no effort then you may want to consider spending the time to learn it. If you are happy as a bug in a rug doing HTML (bletch!) then by all means, torture, I mean, enjoy yourself with that! <\/p>\n Markdown is not a end-all-do-all language and no, it can\u2019t natively do a target=\u201c_blank\u201d link but it is not meant for navigation among web pages, just sharing links relatively easily. You can\u2019t make a lifelike image of the Eiffel tower with Excel, well, maybe you can since you are the Master of Excel, but none of the rest of us could because it\u2019s not a graphics tool. By the way, you can make a link right in Markdown to open in a new tab by injecting HTML into your MD For people like Frederico Vittici<\/a> and John Gruber<\/a> Markdown is a lifesaver I\u2019m sure.<\/p>\n\n
\n <strong>something<\/strong><\/em>
\n(or is it bold, or b or ??) or just
\n*something*<\/em><\/p>\n<br><\/code> or if you want the NEW way to do it <br \/><\/code> – Why is the stupid slash AFTER the tag? Everything else is before <\/a><\/code>! Argh! Ok, it\u2019s not that new but it has changed since I learned HTML and something changes every couple of years.<\/p>\n
\n <ul>
\n <li> one <\/li>
\n <li> two <\/li>
\n <\/ul><\/code>
\nor was that ol, or is li the outside and the ol is the numbered lines in the inside? Oh shoot, where\u2019s that book!?!? I\u2019m a programmer and I did that every time at first! <\/p>\nIs there a point?<\/h4>\n
\n<a href=\u201chttp:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/4425198\/markdown-target-blank\u201d target=\u201c_blank\u201d>Link in Markdown<\/a><\/code> by cheating and sticking the HTML right in your MD document – many tools handle that just fine.<\/p>\n