A theme break (a horizontal rule) is written as three or more dashes, underscores, or asterisks. These may be preceded by up to three spaces. When rendered with pegdown or pandoc (default) they usually must be preceded by a blank line, and followed by a blank line.
Written as:
---
___
***Rendered as:
Too few marks do not work:
--
__
**
The marks may be interspersed with spaces, but not any other characters.
Written:
- - -
_ _ _
* * *Rendered:
A theme break may appear in a block quote.
Written:
> ***
>
> quoted
>
> ***
>
> textRendered:
quoted
text
Can a theme break be contained in a list? Not in pegdown where it appears theme breaks interrupt a list. However, pandoc appears the same as flexmark.
Notice using the same character as a list and as a theme break yields a pure theme break (it is interpreted as a theme break containing spaces).
Written:
- item 1
-
***
- ---
-
___
- item 2
* ***Rendered: