Three or more dashes, underscores, or asterisks. May be preceded by up to three spaces.
Written as:
---
___
***
Rendered as:
Too few:
–
__
**
Interspersed with spaces:
- - -
_ _ _
* * *
Theme break in a paragraph? No. (Underscores and dashes become headers.)
standard
***
deviation
standard *** deviation
Break in a blockquote? No. (Underscores and dashes become headers.)
> quoted
> ***
> text
quoted *** text
Break in a list? Yes. Notice using the same character as a list and as a theme break yields a pure theme break.
- item 1
- ***
- ---
- ___
- item 2
* ***