5 KB Markdown sample
A Markdown file of exactly 5,120 bytes. It is a valid Markdown file, generated by this site. Compare its checksum and test it with the parser used by your application. Use it wherever you need a 5 KB sample, test or dummy Markdown file.
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sample-md-5kb.md
5 KB5,120 bytes
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- Type
- text/markdown
- SHA-256
be8093a6e0b10c0832dfd1616e5c83f2c90d57a6af02bc122e27d5d974b1ff3f- Delivery
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What is in this file
12 sections with headings, paragraphs, bulleted and numbered lists, block quotes, fenced code blocks and tables. An HTML comment at the end brings the file to the exact size.
| Sections | 12 |
|---|---|
| Flavour | CommonMark, with GitHub-style tables |
| Elements | Headings, emphasis, lists, links, quotes, code blocks, tables |
| Encoding | UTF-8 (ASCII characters only) |
| Line endings | LF |
How the file begins
The opening lines of sample-md-5kb.md, exactly as they appear in the file.
00000000 23 20 53 61 6d 70 6c 65 20 4d 61 72 6b 64 6f 77 |# Sample Markdow|
00000010 6e 20 66 69 6c 65 20 28 35 20 4b 42 29 0a 0a 41 |n file (5 KB)..A|
00000020 20 43 6f 6d 6d 6f 6e 4d 61 72 6b 20 64 6f 63 75 | CommonMark docu|
00000030 6d 65 6e 74 20 66 6f 72 20 74 65 73 74 69 6e 67 |ment for testing|Preview
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Where 5 KB matters
A 5,120-byte file: larger than a cookie, smaller than a typical HTTP header limit. These are the default limits a file of this size is useful for testing:
| System | Limit | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Browser cookies | 4,096 bytes per cookie | 5 KB does not fit in one cookie. |
| Vite asset inlining | 4 KB by default (assetsInlineLimit) | A 5 KB asset is emitted as a separate file rather than inlined as base64. |
| nginx and Apache request headers | 8 KB per header line by default | 5 KB fits; the 10 KB sample does not. |
Use this file for
- Smoke tests in CI that must run in milliseconds
- Testing Markdown renderers and editors
- Checking sanitisation of rendered HTML
Testing notes for Markdown
- Markdown may contain raw HTML, so anything that renders user-supplied Markdown needs an HTML sanitiser.
- Tables are an extension rather than part of CommonMark, so renderers differ on whether they appear.
Technical details
| File name | sample-md-5kb.md |
|---|---|
| Format | Markdown (Markdown) |
| Extension | .md |
| MIME type | text/markdown |
| Size | 5,120 bytes (5 KB) |
| Kind | Text |
| SHA-256 | be8093a6e0b10c0832dfd1616e5c83f2c90d57a6af02bc122e27d5d974b1ff3f |
| Created | 2026-10-23 |
| Validation | See the listed size and SHA-256. Small downloads are checked in the browser; verify streamed downloads manually. A hash match does not prove parser compatibility. |
| Preview | Available on this page |
| Source | Generated in your browser by this site's generator; not copied from elsewhere |
| Licence | Free to use, modify and redistribute (terms) |
| Category | Documents |
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Questions about this file
- Is this file exactly 5 KB?
- Yes. It is 5,120 bytes, which is 5 KB in the binary units that operating systems and server limits use (1 KB = 5,120 bytes).
- What is inside the 5 KB Markdown file?
- 12 sections with headings, paragraphs, bulleted and numbered lists, block quotes, fenced code blocks and tables. An HTML comment at the end brings the file to the exact size.
- Which Markdown features do the samples use?
- Headings, emphasis, ordered and unordered lists, links, a pipe table, a fenced code block and a block quote.