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title: "Markdown Extensions for Confluence"
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/MARK/151158787/Markdown%20Extensions%20for%20Confluence"
format: markdown
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> ⚠️ Are you planning to migrate to Cloud? Make sure you do not lose your data/configurations in the process. Check out the [Migration guide](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/x/noACCQ) for information on how to migrate the app’s data to Cloud. Contact our [support team](https://appfire.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/11) if you have any questions.

## *Allows users to write and display **[Markdown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown)** in Confluence pages.*

*This plugin is powered by **[Flexmark](https://github.com/vsch/flexmark-java)**, a markdown processor implemented in Java.*

## Features

- **Classic markdown capabilities ** Support for tables, Fenced code block with syntax highlighting, strike-through text, and auto linkification!
- **Download from web**  Load Markdown from URLs.
- **Preview the rendered page**  Preview your changes in our built-in editor (Only for Cloud, Server Confluence has built-in preview utility).
- **Render from Github ** Load URLs from private Github repositories.
  - Relative images and links are supported both for public and private Github
- **Render from Bitbucket ** Load URLs from private Bitbucket repositories.
- **Render from Gitlab** Load URLs from private Gitlab repositories.