HOWTO: Styling your post on Steemit using Markdown

in #steemit8 years ago (edited)

Markdown

Hello Steemit community!

As Steemit supports Markdown I've decided to post a small guide for beginners here.

So what is Markdown?

Markdown is a way to style text on the web. You control the display of the document; formatting words as bold or italic, adding images, and creating lists are just a few of the things we can do with Markdown. Mostly, Markdown is just regular text with a few non-alphabetic characters thrown in, like # or *.

Headers

# This is an <h1> tag
## This is an <h2> tag
###### This is an <h6> tag

Emphasis

*This text will be italic*
_This will also be italic_

**This text will be bold**
__This will also be bold__

_You **can** combine them_

Lists

Unordered
* Item 1
* Item 2
  * Item 2a
  * Item 2b
Ordered
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
   * Item 3a
   * Item 3b

Images

![GitHub Logo](/images/logo.png)
Format: ![Alt Text](url)

Links

http://github.com - automatic!
[GitHub](http://github.com)

Blockquotes

As Kanye West said:

> We're living the future so
> the present is our past.

Inline code

I think you should use an
`<addr>` element here instead.

Markdown Editors

There're markdown editors almost for all platforms

Windows: Markdownpad

Mac: MacDown

Linux: Remarkable

And there're also a lot of web-based editors.

Thanks a lot, hope you found this article quite helpful!

P.S. Material was mainly taken from guides.github.com

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Thanks for the post. I already downloaded MarkdownPad2.
But it keeps crashing during generating the preview.

I assume you're on Windows platform, so you can try Remarkable.
It seems there're version for your OS :)

I found the problem. I needed to install awesomium_v1.6.6_sdk_win.exe. Now it works!

Thanks for the info. I have just checked at github but it seems the windows version is not ready yet.
https://remarkableapp.github.io/windows.html

Oh, thanks for letting me know.
There're also MdCharm for Windows.
But there's also cool web-based editor Dillinger.io

Dillinger.io is great.
Thanks! :)

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Thanks,I need the guidance,I´m not so tech savvy..

The links were different from others and I have been looking at a lot since I joined. Good work and thank you. This post has helped me.

Hi! I just wanted to let you know that I referenced this post in my recent blog about formatting. https://steemit.com/steemit/@farmstead/markdown-editor-make-posts-easier