Let's take a look at another formatting convention: the header. Headers are frequently used on websites, magazine articles, and notices, to draw attention to a section. As their name implies, they act like titles or subtitles above sections.
There are six types of headers, in decreasing sizes:
To make headers in Markdown, you preface the phrase with a hash mark (#
). You
place the same number of hash marks as the size of the header you want. For example,
for a header one, you'd use one hash mark (# Header One
), while for
a header three, you'd use three (### Header Three
).
For this next lesson, make each header the right size.
All right!
It's up to you to decide when it's appropriate to use which header. In general, headers one and six should be used sparingly.
You can't really make a header bold, but you can italicize certain words. In the box below, make the first line a heading level four, and italicize the name of the book: