Markdown - Zed

# Markdown

Markdown support is available natively in Zed.

- Tree-sitter: tree-sitter-markdown
- Language Server: N/A

## Syntax Highlighting Code Blocks

Zed supports language-specific syntax highlighting of markdown code blocks by leveraging tree-sitter language grammars. All Zed supported languages, including those provided by official or community extensions, are available for use in markdown code blocks. All you need to do is provide a language name after the opening ````` code fence like so:

    ```python
    import functools as ft

    @ft.lru_cache(maxsize=500)
    def fib(n):
        return n if n < 2 else fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2)
    ```

## Configuration

### Format

Zed supports using Prettier to automatically re-format Markdown documents. You can trigger this manually via the {#action editor::Format} action or via the {#kb editor::Format} keyboard shortcut. Alternately, you can automatically format by enabling `format_on_save` in your settings.json:

      "languages": {
        "Markdown": {
          "format_on_save": "on"
        }
      },

### Trailing Whitespace

By default Zed will remove trailing whitespace on save. If you rely on invisible trailing whitespace being converted to `<br />` in Markdown files you can disable this behavior with:

      "languages": {
        "Markdown": {
          "remove_trailing_whitespace_on_save": false
        }
      },