Justify Your Words!

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No, this isn’t a critique of your content.

This was inspired by a comment from falseyedols@falseyedols complimenting the format and layout of my previous post. So let me introduce you to one of my favorite visual design techniques: Justified Text Alignment.

Commonly used in print media, justification aligns your text to both the left and right margins of the page. On Steemit, where we have large amounts of whitespace on either side of our posts, it works as a sort of stretched out version of centering that gives our words their own little area in which to reside.

The Steemit text editor supports both Markdown and HTML, but for this particular trick, I’m using HTML. In other words, if there is a way to do this with Markdown, I don’t know how!

Using HTML, you would enclose your entire text within a div tag to specify what you want to do with that division of content. Then, just to be clean, put each of your paragraphs within p tags.

This is something much easier shown than explained, so here is a glimpse of how it would look in the text editor:



Keep in mind that with HTML, what is opened must be closed, which is usually done by putting a forward slash in front of the same tag:

Using HTML instead of Markdown does add a few minutes to your post creation time, but it gives you access to far more customization options.

Of course, this is a matter of your own personal preference. I’m drawn to text justification because it’s the traditional standard used in print. On the internet, a lot of blogs go with left-aligned text for a more casual style. Design is not about being correct or incorrect.

Maybe don’t use it for poetry though. I’m not sure how well that would work.




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