To create code blocks or other preformatted text, indent by four spaces or surround with groups of backticks:
This will be displayed in a monospaced font. The first four spaces
will be stripped off, but all other whitespace will be preserved.
```
Markdown and HTML are turned off in code blocks:
<i>This is not italic</i>, and [this is not a link](https://example.com)
```
To create not a block, but an inline code span, use backticks:
The `$` character is just a shortcut for `window.jQuery`.
If you want to have a preformatted block within a list, indent by eight spaces:
1. This is normal text.
2. So is this, but now follows a code block:
Skip a line and indent eight spaces.
That's four spaces for the list
and four to trigger the code block.