Learning Markdown helps you make your great content look great!

I created an online course called Steem Markdown, which teaches you how to use Markdowns to format your Steemit posts.

In this post, I am including information from Lesson #13 - Tables.

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Getting Started

Tables are used in Steemit to organize information.

Important things to remember:

• Tables must have column headers.
• Column headers will automatically be bolded. You can add other formatting as you see fit.
• You create division between each column by using a pipe:|
• Column headers are followed by a series of dashes and pipes. There must be at least 3 dashes between each header cell.
• Text within the columns of each table can be left or right aligned.
  • Markdown in other programs can support center alignment, but Steemit does not support center alignment at this time.
  • Left - -------- or :-------
  • Right - --------:
• Although not required, you can use outer pipes | and an equal number of spaces when designing a table to make it more aesthetically appealing in the Markdown code.
• Steemit automatically uses a zebra formatting pattern to help distinguish between different lines in the table.

The Comparison

Basic Table without outer pipes

What you type:

First Header | Second Header 
------------ | ------------- 
A | C
B | D 

What you see:

First Header	Second Header
A	C
B	D

Basic Table with outer pipes

What you type:

| First Header | Second Header | 
| ------------ | ------------- | 
| A | C |
| B | D |

What you see:

First Header	Second Header
A	C
B	D

Table with a right aligned column and uneven spacing

What you type:

| Left Aligned | Right Aligned | 
|--------------|--------------:| 
| A | 1 | 
| B | 100 | 
| C | 1000 | 

What you see:

Left Aligned	Right Aligned
A	1
B	100
C	1000

Practice Makes Perfect

Now it's your turn to practice what you have learned.

• Open Steemit.com and click Submit a Story.
• Copy the following text and paste it into the Steemit Markdown editor.

First Header | Second Header 
------------ | ------------- 
A | C 
B | D

| Left Aligned | Right Aligned | 
|--------------|--------------:| 
| A | 1 | 
| B | 100 | 
| C | 1000 | 

• Customize the look of your tables (both the code and the end result) by
  • Adding or removing the outer pipes
  • Adjusting the number of dashes you used to create the heading sections
  • Change the text alignment from left to right or vice versa

Please give me feedback in the comments section. If you have any questions feel free to ask!

@sumatranate

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