Hi steemians I am glad to have made it this far, having my achievement 3 verified. In this achievement4 post I want to show my understanding of markdown on the steemit platform. ![Achievement 4 Applying Markdown by @concord-leo.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmeto1CaLwvEqUAzJBoqxb76SSYt3xZzMRvEk99uUeV2Qw/Achievement%204%20Applying%20Markdown%20by%20@concord-leo.jpg) # Markdown Markdowns are used to style our contents and arrange them in a readable and convincing manner . Below are few markdown styles used in steemit. ## 1. Headers We use the hash (#) tag to create different headers, the more the number of hash tags we have the smaller the header. The headers are created by adding the hash symbol and a space before the header. to apply the headers we use this: ![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmb68Sh5YXP5dJ6N19vDopbZ5m2cVykyqo16MMdPmLHt54/image.png) Below are the output of the headers # My Header 1 ## My Header2 ### My Header3 #### My Header4 ##### My Header5 # 2. Center texts Center texts are very important in content writing. We can center topics or sub topics to make our writeup beautiful. We use this: ![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmf2jobsFq8pDB92qy7UvVWDJUMkYtawGmoU5sSUt8x4kZ/image.png) center text output below Markdown Post # 3. Line breaks Sometimes it is important to add line breaks to our write-ups and to achieve this we use the < br> tag. # 4.Italics and Strike To apply the italics and strike we use the following tags to achieve it. *** italics*** ~~ strike through~~ This is the Output ***italics*** ~~strike through~~ we can also make words bold using the (*) # 5.Tables Tables are very vital in write-ups where items should be arranged side-by-side to achieve this we use this: ![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmSGfptSLNz3mGW8HyECDqxTRUUwDLTxdSM9wqR8jj8xZ8/image.png) Below is the output of the table Words | Opposite -------- | ---------- Boy | Girl Day | Night Up | Down Rise | Fall # 6.Writing Quotes For proper referencing, we use quotes in content writing. To write a quote we add the greater than symbol > in front of the text. >”your mind is stronger than your body.” -Gideon There are more markdowns available to use in steemit platform Just as this achievement post was written using the < div class="text-justify"> < /div> to make the content sit properly. But I will stop here.

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