Introduction to online markdown editors

Online Markdown editors are increasing in popularity along with Markdown itself. Since 2004, Markdown has been increasing in use as a more functional and easier-to-write version of rich-text formatting. Markdown is popular across the web and online Markdown editors will continue to proliferate as long as there is interest in simple formatting for text on the web.

Advantages of online markdown editors

Markdown makes it really easy to apply formatting to text. Markdown covers the capabilities of HTML without the need for writing HTML tags, which can be a little annoying. 
As an example, to make an H1 heading in Markdown, you can simply write
# some text
and the markdown will render like this: