GitHub README.md files are displaying '#' symbols instead of rendering as <headers>

Question

github readme.md files are displaying '#' symbols instead of rendering as headers

#Please FORK this project

##Visit our descriptive wiki

instead of being rendered as:

Please FORK this project

Visit our descriptive wiki

from what i can tell, it just started out of nowhere, it used to be fine - dumb, i know.

any advice?

Answer 1

You need to have a space after the # character before the text. That will give you what you want.

Then you will get what you want!

In general, Markdown is pretty picky about spaces, horizontal and vertical, so try adding whitespace when things don't render the way you want.