Hello, everyone.

I welcome you all to my blog, I recalled struggling to find guidelines on how to perform certain things. Every time I need to do some markdown like how to *bold text or how to centralized a text on Steemit, I used Google.

I know some newbie will be facing the same issue right now, so I decided to write about some markdown styles and how to go about it.

I hope you find this information useful.

How To Make Headlines

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When writing an article, headers and sub-headlines are particularly important features to consider because they display the structure of your content and guide the reader's eye.

This can be done by inserting symbol # at the start of the text or sentence. As the number of # symbol increases the size of the text or sentences decreases.

Example;

Header 1

Header 2

Header 3

Header 4

Header 5

This code was used to make the above markdown:

# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
#### Header 4
##### Header 5

How to Justify Text

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Justify your text will make your articles unique, easy to read and not to forget it will make the content neat.

When you apply a text-justify command to your content, space is inserted between words so that both margins are aligned on every line.

How to Justify a text <div class="text-justify">Input the text and end it with </div>

Steemit is a decentralized social media, which allow users to earn money for sharing quality and original contents

You can see the difference, Text-justify made my content neat and easy to read

How To Create a Table

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Incase you want to make a difference or similarities between two things, making use of a table will be the best thing to do.

*Creating a Table

Header 1 | Header 2
------ | ------
Cell 1 | Cell 2
Cell 3 | Cell 4

Result 👇

Header 1	Header 2
Cell 1	Cell 2
Cell 3	Cell 4

How To Centralized a Text or Sentence

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It's also a good idea to center a text in your content to make it look more presentable.

How to centered a text or sentence <center>What is Steemit</center>

The Result 👇

What is Steemit

How To Make a Bold or Italic Text

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If you want to highlight some certain text or sentence, you can decide to make the text bold or Italic this will help the reader to understand your content better.

How to make a bold text

To Make a text or sentence bold, just add two (2) ** at the beginning and the end of the text or sentence

Example;

**Steemit is decentralized social media**

The Result 👇

Steemit is decentralized social media

How to make an Italic Text

To make a text italic simple add one (1) * at the beginning and the end of the text or sentence

Example;

*Steemit is decentralized social media*

The Result 👇

Steemit is decentralized social media

How To Add Source or Link to an Image of Text

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If you are using an image or text or quote you downloaded online, you need to add the source or link this is to avoid plaigiraism and gives credit to the real owner.

Example; I downloaded this image online

https://www.google.com/search?q=markdown+on+steemit&client

You can clearly see that my content is not attractive, I can easily add this markdown style to make it more attractive 'Image source`

The Result 👇

Image source

You can see how this one is quite different from the other one, it makes my work attractive and presentable.

Adding Quotation

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While writing your content, you might decide to borrow someone's else work, to avoid plaigiraism you need to properly quote the source where you copied from.

How to quote a text or source

You need to add the symbol > at the beginning of the text or the source

Example;

Let say, I want to quote one of the most famous quotes I copied online, to avoid direct pliagrism I will have to quote it. Below is how I quoted it 👇

>The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The Result 👇

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

You can as well add the source link underneath the the text quote.

Example; >The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
[Source Name](link)

The Result 👇

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Source Name

How to add SubScript and SuperScript

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SubScript simple means making a text or number to appear below the baseline while SuperScript means making a text or number appear above the baseline.

How to SubScript a Text or Number

Simple do it this way<sub>text or number here</sub>

For example, H2O and you want to SubScript the 2.

H<sub>2</sub>O

The Result 👇

H₂O

How to SuperScript a Text or Number

Simple do it this way<sup>text or number here</sup>

For example, 4^2= 16 and you want to SuperScript the number 2.

4<sup>2</sup> = 16

The Result 👇

4²= 16

Conclusion

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I'd like to come to a halt here. The purpose of this post is to help us all become better content creators for the Steemit platform. These are just a few of the many markdown styles available on this platform. I recommend that you look at the website below for examples of markdown styles.

• Markdown Styles Guide by github.com

I hope you guys have benefited from this article, special thanks to the admin of this wonderful community @churchangel for all his kind support.

Best regards: @mato445