Howdy, amazing steemians…

I am glad to have been able to participate in achievement 4 post. And here is my article on achievement 4 post which is centered on markdowns in steemit.

WHAT IS MARKDOWN?
Markdown is an editing term used to describe the use of symbols to execute certain functions such as formatting text, videos, and also editing of texts.

Below are some examples of markdowns and how they are being used:

Italicizing of text
To italicize a text, we need to use a single star symbol (*) at the beginning and the end of the text to do so. For example, lets italicize the text “Jesus is Lord”, after applying our star symbol at the beginning and at the end of our text, we have this; “Jesus is Lord”

Bolding of text
In order to bolden text in steemit, we use symbols like ** at the beginning and the end of the text. Take for example, if I am bolden the text “God is good”, all I need to do is to put two stars (**) at the beginning and the end of the text. The end product will be like this, “God is good”.

Italicizing and bolding of text
To italicize and bolden a text at the same time, all we need to do is to use a triple star symbol (***) at the beginning and the end of the text to do so. For example, let’s apply this markdown to this text “Steemit is wonderful”. We will have something like this; “Steemit is wonderful”.

Creating headlines
To create proper headlines, we start by using tag (#) symbols together with giving a space. One tag (#) enlarges the headline, two tags (##) reduces it, three tags (###) reduces it further and it continues like that. Take for example below;

God is good

God is love

God is wisdom

Creating table
Tables are inserted by using bar line (|) in between headers and dash lines (----) underneath headers. When such is applied we will have an output like this below;

Students	Grade in Math
Ebuka	A
John	B
Ada	B
Chidera	C

Indicating username
To indicate usernames on steemit, we use symbol like “@” followed by the username without spacing. Take for example, my username “bukason007” to indicate it, the output will look like this @bukason007.

With the above explanations and examples of markdown, I believe I’ve done justice to the achievement 4 post on application of markdowns.

Thanks.