This post is a complete guide, including all markdown commands that you may need to craft an appealing post on steemit.
I remember struggling to find information about how to do certain things on steemit posts. Every time I needed to google about how to center text or how to align an image at steemit
I hope this will be helpful to you and I am also including it at the below link here
Headlines and sub-headlines are important elements as they show the structure of your post and guide the eye of the reader.
There are two ways to create a headline.
(a) You insert at the start of the row a # symbol. As the number of the hashtag symbol # increases, the headline size decreases.
For instance:
The above are created with this code:
# Headline 1
## Headline 2
### Headline 3
#### Headline 4
##### Headline 5
###### Headline 6
Instead of adding the #, you can add your title and underneath three dashes or three times the equal sign.
This will be a headline 2
---
This will be a headline 1
===
Tip You can make the headline centered, italic, strikethrough as follows
# <center> Headline here</center>center>#Headline`#& HeadlineYou can do a number of things with text. One thing you can do when writing an essay on steemit, is justify your text.
<div class="text-justify">
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc eget purus a tortor egestas placerat sit amet vitae sem. Nullam sit amet finibus justo. Donec volutpat ipsum leo. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Suspendisse sit amet dignissim ante.
</div>
The Output will be
(without the justify command > )
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc eget purus a tortor egestas placerat sit amet vitae sem. Nullam sit amet finibus justo. Donec volutpat ipsum leo. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas.
Sometimes you may need to write something in two languages or input it in two different columns.
<div class="pull-right">
TEXT RIGHT Cras pellentesque, diam ut fringilla luctus, massa mauris fringilla magna, sed consequat mi odio in ante.
</div>
TEXT LEFT Cras pellentesque, diam ut fringilla luctus, massa mauris fringilla magna, sed consequat mi odio in ante.
You will need to add the <center> text here </center> to align text
You can use the <sub> text or number here </sub> to make a text or number appear below the baseline.
H<sub>2</sub>O has as output the H2O
You can also use subscript to write a note in between a text or under a photo / video
You can use the <sup> command for a text to appar above the baseline
A reference goes here<sup>1</sup> has as output >> A reference goes here1
Tip: You can add a clickable link
A reference goes here<sup>[1](https://steemd.com)</sup> has as output >> A reference goes here1
Adding links in our posts is very useful and we often need to do it numerous times.
@, the name becomes clickable (leading to the steemit blog page) i.e. 
https://steemit.com/@katerinaramm > > https://steemit.com/@katerinaramm[this will be an inline link](https://steemit.com/@katerinaramm) transforms to >>You can create a table in two ways
Copy and paste the below and add as many headers and cells you need.
Header 1 | Header 2
--------- | ----------
Cell 1 | Cell 2
Will have the output >>
| Header 1 | Header 2 |
|---|---|
| Cell 1 | Cell 2 |
An HTML table is defined with the <table> tag.
Each table row is defined with the <tr> tag. A table header is defined with the <th> tag. By default, table headings are bold and centered. A table data/cell is defined with the <td> tag. source
<table>
<tr>
<th> header 1 </th> <th> header 2 </th>
<tr>
<td> cell 1 </td> <td> cell 2 </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> cell 3 </td> <td> cell 4</td>
</tr>
</table>
The output of the above code will be
| header 1 | header 2 |
|---|---|
| cell 1 | cell 2 |
| cell 3 | cell 4 |
Tips
<td> and </td> and the in between syntax<tr>&</tr><a href="link">title</a>Adding Code in a post is sometimes necessary, it works in the below two ways:
a. Adding one back-tick (`) before and one after the markdown syntax
**using bold syntax** >> using bold syntax
or b. you can use <code> before and after the command </code> at the end of the word/sentence
<code> *hello* </code> output will be >> hello
You can read more info here
We often need to write a quote, a phrase that someone said or wrote.
That is when we use the > in front of the sentence
Blockquotes with > for something that someone has written/said
> “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein
There are sometimes that we need an extra line break between text.
We can use the <br> to include an extra line space
We often need to insert videos or gifs in our posts.
YouTube videos are instantly embedded, so if you put a link it appear in text. If in any way it interferes with text or images, you can put ruler before and after it.
Gifs are also embeddable, just put the link and you can even center them with the <center> command
https://media.tenor.com/images/917de53340b903bb7c142031b411593e/tenor.gif
Tip: You need to find the url that finishes in .gif
DTube can be embedded but requires some more time than YouTube.
Scenario a: When you upload a dtube video, it automatically is embedded in your steemit post.
It also shows the link to the youtube video and to the screenshot.
For instance: https://steemit.com/music/@thetroublenotes/ap0ofmc6
These are both the links we will need + use (the dtube link and screenshot used)
If you already have the above information, you can upload the video using this code:
<center><a href='https://d.tube/#!/v/thetroublenotes/ap0ofmc6'><img src='https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmNnrP6KnhTHqFAfwt8CnB6XeRHfMZ5Qj2ngyT7dgt2UwP'></a></center>
(output)
Scenario B You do not have a steemit link where the dtube video is located, but you do have the dtube link. (i.e. )
You right click on the video and click on 'save snapshot' After you select folder, you upload it as a normal photo on steemit and you insert the following code (similar as above)
<center><a href='https://d.tube/#!/v/thetroublenotes/ap0ofmc6'><img src='https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYc7f5HaZhZC1tnofBByafrCrq7dC2x4CbjskYkJvWguC/QmdkNq6R6yvrxN6kvQDVnCHqqqHyoWHtbzysNGdVyitLob.jpg'></a></center>
the output will be
ps The positive with this way is that you can select your own favorite shot!
If you wish to separate a theme you can upload a ruler or you can use at the beginning of the line 3 dashes, 3 stars or 3 equal signs
--- or *** or ===
You can align your images at the center, at the left or right side.
<div class="pull-left">
https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmbFjWmi4mxw5AXo9BjVNvobWGc5fmAQyxvhR8S3s4QMtf/20180312_114323.jpg
</div>
text below
<div class="pull-right">
https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmbFjWmi4mxw5AXo9BjVNvobWGc5fmAQyxvhR8S3s4QMtf/20180312_114323.jpg
</div>
text below
<center>https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmbFjWmi4mxw5AXo9BjVNvobWGc5fmAQyxvhR8S3s4QMtf/20180312_114323.jpg</center>
This is the output of center alignment, the image dimension does not change
<div class="pull-left"><center>https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmbFjWmi4mxw5AXo9BjVNvobWGc5fmAQyxvhR8S3s4QMtf/20180312_114323.jpg<sub><a href="https://www.steemit.com">LINK NAME</a></sub></center></div>
OUTPUT
and some text goes here
and some more
STEP 1. You upload both images (big + small dimension)
STEP 2. You remove the 
STEP 3. You add the code as:
<center><a href="https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmXMrYxPPVCRN4SMyHzd3KFrNjmzdURQnLoh6yoscrN8Fx/500500.jpg"><img src="https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYHaS3cTTweaGZNvyeLksCjZ1oXHE3uc7ziBDeBLWBs2P/244.jpg"></a></center>
The below will be the result
It is usually best if you have resized your image before you upload it on stemit. However sometimes we have no time or it is not possible. That is when you can resize it directly on steemit.
STEP 1. You upload the image
The code will look like this
STEP 2. You leave only the main image (without the alt text and the parenthesis)
https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmeNf3mCmKEGR2mmF2jRxS55oExBc398GSgLEzsg6ex7eK/20180127_094041.jpg
STEP 3: You copy the https://steemitimages.com and add to it /0x0/ so it will become https://steemitimages.com/0x0/
STEP 4. You paste it on the start point of your photo so that it will look like this
https://steemitimages.com/0x0/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmeNf3mCmKEGR2mmF2jRxS55oExBc398GSgLEzsg6ex7eK/20180127_094041.jpg
STEP 5. You are ready to reduce your image! Input the number of pixels you want in the first or the second 0 place holder. This will result to a scale down of the image in the desired dimensions.
This image has a dimension of 3200 x 1470
https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmeNf3mCmKEGR2mmF2jRxS55oExBc398GSgLEzsg6ex7eK/20180127_094041.jpg
This image has a height of 600
https://steemitimages.com/600x0/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmeNf3mCmKEGR2mmF2jRxS55oExBc398GSgLEzsg6ex7eK/20180127_094041.jpg
This image has a width of 100
https://steemitimages.com/0x100/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmeNf3mCmKEGR2mmF2jRxS55oExBc398GSgLEzsg6ex7eK/20180127_094041.jpg
Note Copyright is very important when it comes to images. If you are unsure about which images to use and how to find the best ones, click here
Sometimes we see something on a post and we wonder .. How did he do it!?
It is possible to see the code in every steemit post, all we need to do is replace the (it) with (d) in the url.
For instance my post: https://steemit.com/steemit/@katerinaramm/make-the-most-out-of-steemit-a-personal-approach-by-katerinaramm
would become https://steemd.com/steemit/@katerinaramm/make-the-most-out-of-steemit-a-personal-approach-by-katerinaramm
If you replace it with d you see this image:
You can click the three dots to open the whole text and see the code.
If you see some kind of layout in a post and have no idea how to replicate it then you can just access the webpage source in your browser (right mouse click on webpage -> view page source or inspect element) and copy paste what you need :)
Use this wisely!
My sources for this were your questions and my previous posts
Thank you for visiting and remember ...
