Markdown extensions

Cloud Shell tutorials support Markdown extensions to expand the capability of the language.

Code block formatting

To create a code block in your tutorial, use backticks:

  ``` 
 print("hello world") 
 ``` 
 

Code blocks support syntax highlighting and have a button to copy the code to the clipboard.

You can change the way a code block is displayed by adding a class name after the first set of backticks. For example, to tell a code block to syntax highlight as Python, you can add py as a class:

   ```py 
 print 
 ( 
 "hello world" 
 ) 
 ``` 
 

Here are some other classes you can use to change how a code block is shown:

Here are the supported language styles for syntax highlighting: