Markdown & HTML Code Guide for Beginners that includes 5 Useful Tips to edit Posts & Comments using Steemit's Raw Editor; Edit & Align Text, Columns, Table and Smiley'ssteemCreated with Sketch.

in #steemit8 years ago (edited)


This Post is dedicated to all those new Users who recently joined Steemit and have no idea how to utilize the Raw Markdown Editor in order to edit Posts or Comments

When you decide to write out a post, you'll notice that there 2 options on the top right corner that enables you to switch between the built-in Editor or Raw Editor!

The Built-in Editor Is Simple and Easy to Use! If you're really desperate to start publishing content on Steemit this is for you! You won't need much for an ''Introduceyourself'' Post but as you begin to write more content you'll definitely want to familiarize yourself with Markdown & HTML Coding

I can understand that many of you, do not like the slightest idea of learning to code. You should at least give it a try! as there is possibility of getting rewarded by the Community! If your post has interesting Content and appealing layout it is bound to get more upvotes from the Steemit Community, so it pays to learn how to edit or format your Post & Comments

The Raw Editor allows you to edit content through Markdown and HTML Codes. Both of them are consider to be Mark Up Language

What is a Mark Up Language?

Markup languages are designed for the processing, definition and presentation of text. The language specifies code for formatting, both the layout and style, within a text file. The code used to specify the formatting are called tags. HTMLis a an example of a widely known and used markup language

Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting syntax designed so that it can be converted to HTML and many other formats using a tool by the same name

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the set of markup symbols or codes inserted in a file intended for display on a World Wide Web browser page. ... Each individual markup code is referred to as an element (but many people also refer to it as a tag)



5 Beginner Tips



1) Make Text Bold or Italic

sDfTuL.png


Visit This Post for More Information

2) How to Align Text to the Right & Left

If you spot an error in any of my Guides please feel free to correct me and also if there is anything you would like to see a Guide on, let me know! Dedicated young Steemian interested in getting Vested. Will write another tip on Markdown Codes Soon, Follow me for more!


Visit This Post for More Information

3) Insert Table

sDKlGM.png

Raw Editor Input Code

Benefits|Outcome
-|-|
Graphical Content| Data Visualization|
Visualization of statistics| Word Summary|

Visit This Post For More Information

4)Insert smiley's & Icons


sDhQw7.png

IconCode
😉 WinK&#128521
😊 Smile&#128522
😠 Angry&#128544
😜 Tongue&#128540
😧 Surprised&#128551
😱 Scream&#128561
😆 LOL&#128518
😎 Glasses&#128526
😍 Heart Eyes&#128525
😭 Crying&#128557
😞 Sad&#128542
😶 No Words&#128566
😇 Angel&#128519
😈 Devil&#128520
😵 Dizzy&#128565

Visit This Post for More Information

5) Format Text Into Columns

Example

2 Columns

Long lines of text can be hard to read, so doing multiple columns breaks the lines up to something more optimal. In type-setting there is actually a sweet spot between too short lines (eyes have to constantly jump lines) and too long lines (when jumping a line it's hard to figure out which line is the next one and not accidentally skip a line).
It was shown, by experiment, that optimal amount of text for print material is ~60 characters per column. Higher amount of characters per column interferes with brain's ability to scan through text easily, much like you need to break text into paragraphs for same reason
>An alternative method to Display Content

You can simply copy paste the code below into your Raw Editor and change my Text!

<div class=pull-left>
Write you first Column Text right here followed by closing Markdown Code
</div>
<div class=pull-right>
Now write the Text of your 2nd Column, keep in mind that some Markdown Styling won't Work
</div>

Visit This Post for More Information


steemitguide47985.png

I will contiune to write more Guides and Tutorials about Steemit, feel free to follow me! Also let me know if there is any particular Topic about Steemit that you want me to write about! This Post is intended to sum up some of previous Guides & Tutorials that I have written, since Steemit is still a new platform many users have yet to join! So this should be the best time to write educational content for so called Newbies. I will get more Technical with Steemit as time passes, because i'm constantly learning more about this special Social Platform. Dedicated to write more educational content so feel free to give me an Upvote or better follow me, much appreciated!

Sort:  

This is a very helpful post

Loading...

The emoji codes helps alot👍

very usefuls 😎

Indeed the post is quite enlightening

Thank you so much for explaining how to add icons!!!!!!

Upvoted and resteeemed.

Steem on,
Mike

Thank you @steemitguide, helped me setting up my first post. I kinda like the two columns and will continue adapting it for bilingual posts.

Regards!

Me parece excelente soy una newbies, y me preocupa la estetica de mis articulos prefiero aprender al mismo tiempo escribo pero para publicarlos, aprendere tus consejos me parece excelente seguir los pasos de personas que ya han recorido un camino en esta plataforma¡

This is really educating. Thanks👍

Thanks heaps, steemitguide. I've had centering and headings nailed for a while but struggle with left/right justifying images next to text and never even considered columns of text.
You've given me some valuable tips.

Great work! Thanks for the detailed explanation

Like I've always said, you can never have enough Markdown guides. ;)

helpful post upvoted

Coin Marketplace

STEEM 0.20
TRX 0.25
JST 0.038
BTC 98646.90
ETH 3511.62
USDT 1.00
SBD 2.98