Markdown Live Preview
Paste Markdown and see it rendered instantly, so you can check how it will look.
Checking your Markdown renders right
Before you post Markdown somewhere — a comment, a README, a documentation page — it helps to see it rendered, so you can catch a broken link, a heading that did not take, or a list that is not formatting. Paste your Markdown here and it shows you the rendered result immediately, exactly as a reader would see it.
Drop the Markdown in and the formatted version appears.
Preview versus editor
If you want to write Markdown from scratch with the result alongside as you type, the full editor is the better fit. This is the lighter preview: you already have some Markdown and just want to confirm how it renders before you use it elsewhere. Either way, it is a quick way to verify the marks you have written produce the formatting you intended.
Questions & answers
What does it do?
It renders Markdown you paste in, so you can see the formatted result before posting it.
How is this different from the Markdown editor?
The editor is for writing from scratch with a live preview; this is for quickly checking Markdown you already have.
Is my text uploaded?
No. The rendering happens in your browser.