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Markdown syntax for a hyperlink is square brackets followed by parentheses. The square brackets hold the text, the parentheses hold the link.
To underline a text in HTML, use the <u> tag. The <u> tag deprecated in HTML, but then re-introduced in HTML5. Now it represents a text different from another text stylistically, such as a misspelled word. To underline a text, you can also use the style attribute.
Mostly, Markdown is just regular text with a few non-alphabetic characters thrown in, like # or *. Markdown coverts text with four leading spaces into a code block; with GFM you can wrap your code with ``` to create a code block without the leading spaces.
In GitHub markdown <ins>text</ins> works just fine.
Markdown doesn't have a defined syntax to underline text.
I guess this is because underlined text is hard to read, and that it's usually used for hyperlinks.
Another reason is that <u> tags are deprecated in XHTML and HTML5, so it would need to produce something like <span style="text-decoration:underline">this</span>. (IMHO, if <u> is deprecated, so should be <b> and <i>.) Note that Markdown produces <strong> and <em> instead of <b> and <i>, respectively, which explains the purpose of the text therein instead of its formatting. Formatting should be handled by stylesheets.
Update:
The <u> element is no longer deprecated in HTML5.
The simple <u>some text</u> should work for you.
You can wrote **_bold and italic_** and re-style it to underlined text, like this:
strong>em,
em>strong,
b>i,
i>b {
font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal;
text-decoration:underline;
}
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