Docusaurus supports Markdown and a few additional features.
Markdown documents have metadata at the top called Front Matter:
---
id: my-doc-id
title: My document title
description: My document description
slug: /my-custom-url
---
## Markdown heading
Markdown text with [links](./hello.md)
Regular Markdown links are supported, using url paths or relative file paths.
Let's see how to [Create a page](/create-a-page).
Let's see how to [Create a page](./create-a-page.md).
Result: Let's see how to Create a page.
Regular Markdown images are supported.
You can use absolute paths to reference images in the static directory (static/img/docusaurus.png
):

You can reference images relative to the current file as well. This is particularly useful to colocate images close to the Markdown files using them:

Markdown code blocks are supported with Syntax highlighting.