Achievement 4:Understanding the skills of markdown styling by @andrea51

in Newcomers' Community2 days ago

Greetings everyone, I am done with my first 3 achievements and today I will continue with achievement 4 which
is all about markdown styling, that can make your posts more attractive, and it helps to present your post in a decent manner which is more readable to the viewers.

SECTION 1: HEADINGS

EXPLANATION:

The symbol in markdown used for headings is "#".
The number of these symbols indicates the levels of headings
For example:

This is Heading 1

This is Heading 2

This is Heading 3

SECTION 2: BOLD AND ITALIC TEXT

EXPLANATION:

In Markdown, we use asterisks * or underscores _ to make text bold or italic.

To make text italic, wrap it with one * or _

To make text bold, wrap it with two ** or __

To make text bold and italic, wrap it with three *

🔹 For example:
This is italic → This is italic
This is bold → This is bold
This is bold and italic → This is bold and italic
🟢 SECTION 3: LISTS


🔹 EXPLANATION:
In Markdown, you can create:


✅ Unordered (bulleted) lists

Use a -, +, or * followed by a space:

  • Apple
  • Banana
  • Mango
    Will appear like:
    Apple
    Banana
    Mango

🔢 Ordered (numbered) lists
Use numbers followed by a period:

  1. First item
  2. Second item
  3. Third item

SECTION 3: LISTS

EXPLANATION:

In Markdown, we can create lists using either bullets or numbers.

To create a bulleted list, use -, +, or * before each item.

To create a numbered list, just use numbers followed by a dot.

🔹 Bulleted List Example:

  • Coffee
  • Tea
  • Juice

🔢 Numbered List Example:

  1. Wake up
  2. Brush teeth
  3. Start writing

🧩 SECTION 4: Links

🔗 Explanation:

In Markdown, you can create clickable links using this format:
Link Text
✅ Example:
Visit Steemit
This will appear as:
👉 Visit Steemit

🧱 SECTION 5: Blockquotes

💬 Explanation:

To create a blockquote (for quoting someone’s words or highlighting something), you simply add a greater than sign (>) before the line.
✅ Syntax:

This is a blockquote.
🔍 Example:
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

🧱 SECTION 6: Code Blocks

💬 Explanation:

To format a piece of text like code, you can either:
Use a single backtick ` for short code
Or use triple backticks ``` for multi-line code blocks
✅ Syntax:
For inline code:
Use backticks around text
For a block of code:
This is a block of code
🔍 Example:
For inline:
print("Hello, Andrea!")
For block:
def greet():
print("Hello, Andrea!")

🔸 FINAL SECTION: Horizontal Line

💬 Explanation:

A horizontal line is used to separate content or sections in Markdown.
✅ Syntax:
Use three dashes like this:


🔍 Example:
This is Section 6.
This is Section 7.

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