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 About
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+=====
 
-Flot is a Javascript plotting library for jQuery. Read more at the
-website:
-
-  http://code.google.com/p/flot/
+Flot is a Javascript plotting library for jQuery. Read more at
+[the website.](http://code.google.com/p/flot/)
 
 Take a look at the examples linked from above, they should give a good
 impression of what Flot can do and the source code of the examples is
@@ -23,7 +21,8 @@ For support for Internet Explorer < 9, you can use Excanvas, a canvas
 emulator; this is used in the examples bundled with Flot. You just
 include the excanvas script like this:
 
-  <!--[if lte IE 8]><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="excanvas.min.js"></script><![endif]-->
+    <!--[if lte IE 8]><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"
+    src="excanvas.min.js"></script><![endif]-->
 
 If it's not working on your development IE 6.0, check that it has
 support for VML which Excanvas is relying on. It appears that some
@@ -46,13 +45,13 @@ Basic usage
 
 Create a placeholder div to put the graph in:
 
-   <div id="placeholder"></div>
+    <div id="placeholder"></div>
 
 You need to set the width and height of this div, otherwise the plot
 library doesn't know how to scale the graph. You can do it inline like
 this:
 
-   <div id="placeholder" style="width:600px;height:300px"></div>
+    <div id="placeholder" style="width:600px;height:300px"></div>
 
 You can also do it with an external stylesheet. Make sure that the
 placeholder isn't within something with a display:none CSS property -
@@ -63,7 +62,7 @@ placeholder dimensions which is fatal (it'll throw an exception).
 Then when the div is ready in the DOM, which is usually on document
 ready, run the plot function:
 
-  $.plot($("#placeholder"), data, options);
+    $.plot($("#placeholder"), data, options);
 
 Here, data is an array of data series and options is an object with
 settings if you want to customize the plot. Take a look at the
@@ -71,7 +70,7 @@ examples for some ideas of what to put in or look at the reference
 in the file "API.txt". Here's a quick example that'll draw a line from
 (0, 0) to (1, 1):
 
-  $.plot($("#placeholder"), [ [[0, 0], [1, 1]] ], { yaxis: { max: 1 } });
+    $.plot($("#placeholder"), [ [[0, 0], [1, 1]] ], { yaxis: { max: 1 } });
 
 The plot function immediately draws the chart and then returns a plot
 object with a couple of methods.