![Top_border](https://www.balticcasting.com/upload/gold_line.png) Steemit is a wonderful platform which allows you to communicate with others and exchange useful ideas while you earn money. While submitting stories most of the new users do not use the editor in full capacity. The objective of this post and video tutorial is to educate you about the same. If you find it useful for the community, please upvote and resteem. It took me a few hours to make the videos and write a post.

Under the hood, Steemit uses something called as Markdown to format text. ![Top_border](https://www.jp-uk.co.uk/know-how/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/6_gold-line.png)

What is formatting?

It is the art of beautifying the document to make it look more interesting to others. Watch the videos below to find out more. The first video is for newcomers. Advance users please check out the relevant videos by topic.

Basics of Steemit editor

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Display data in tabular format: Tables

To copy and paste, please visit this link. A 3 column table with three rows: | Serial # | Name | Points | | ------------- | ------------- |------------- | | 1 | Sam | 999 | | 2 | Tina | 998 | | 3 | Rita | 944 | | 4 | Tim | 997 | A two column table with five rows: | Name | Cellphone number | | -------- | ------------------------- | | Sam | 999-88-8878 | | Eddy | 666-88-8878 | | Time | 444-88-8878 | | Beth | 222-88-8878 | | Rita | 777-88-8878 | ![Top_border](https://www.jp-uk.co.uk/know-how/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/6_gold-line.png)

Two column layout.

Order in which the div tag appears does not matter. To copy and paste, please visit: Text on left, and image on right.

It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English.

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Ordered and unordered lists.

To copy and paste, please visit this link. This is an ordered list. 1. Item 1 2. Item 2 3. Item 3 4. Item 4 This is an unordered list with sub items. - Tea - Coffee - Juice - Latte - Espresso - Frappe ![Top_border](https://www.jp-uk.co.uk/know-how/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/6_gold-line.png)

How to use headers

Headers allows us to change the size of the fonts. There are two ways to use headers on Steemit. Check out the video to learn more. # H1 or header 1 is used for title's. ## H2 or header 2 is used for sub-title's. ### H3 or header 3 #### H4 or header 4 ##### H5 or header 5 ###### H6 or header 6. This is the smallest of headers.
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Playing around with text

Steemit markdown allows you to add b tag which turns the text bold . The strong tag does not seem to work here. If you make a mistake and preserve the previous word, you can use del tag to strikeout the ~~milkstake~~ mistake. To add a hyperlink, use anchor tag. The word to be displayed to the users, must be in-between the opening and closing a tag. The href attribute/property is used to specify where the link leads to. In this case, if you click it, it takes you to my profile. Just beneath this line you can see some dummy python code which is displayed using the code tag. See how different it looks when _compared_ to normal text. Visit this link to copy and paste stuff. ```python #!usr/bin/python print "I love Steemit and you will love me for this post. Please upvote and resteem" ```
You could also quote stuff. Check an example below. > Education is The Manifestation of The Perfection Already in Man > – Swami Vivekananda Watchout! More to come. ![Top_border](https://www.jp-uk.co.uk/know-how/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/6_gold-line.png) To copy and paste, please visit this link. Please upvote.

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