Columns
Blocks are organised into columns by you. |
PDFs organise blocks into columns automatically. |
Try to keep the columns roughly even in length - it makes the cheat sheets easier to use online. |
Plain Text Block
This is an example of a plain text block, filled with example content. Text in these blocks is added as-is, including
line breaks. |
Code Block
<?php
// This is a code block.
// It preserves indentation and
// uses a monospaced font. |
One Column Block
This is a one-column block. |
It's useful for listing long items. |
It can also be useful for sequences of steps or commands in programming cheat sheets or recipes. |
Rows have alternating background colours to make the cheat sheet easier to read. |
Two Column Block
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Two Columns |
Useful For: |
Translations |
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Key / Value Pairs |
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Lists of small items |
Multi-Column Items |
If you have an item in column 1 but not column 2, it will span both columns. |
Three Column Block
These blocks are great for saving space when using lists of small items.
Also, this is the first example of a "content note", which appears under a content block.
Four Column Block
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B |
C |
D |
E |
F |
G |
H |
I |
J |
K |
L |
M |
N |
O |
P |
Q |
R |
S |
T |
U |
V |
W |
X |
Y |
Z |
Much like the three column block, the four column block is handy for saving space when using lists of small items.
Question and Answer Block
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What is this? A Q&A block displays each question with the answer indented underneath.
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When is it useful? It's great for question and answer content!
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Bar Chart Block
Red |
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12 |
Green |
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24 |
Orange |
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88 |
Blue |
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50 |
The bar chart block takes labels and numbers and generates a chart like the above.
Tips
Use tags - they help people find your cheat sheet! |
Pick a dark colour - it makes your cheat sheet easier to read. |
Write a good description so people know what's on your cheat sheet. |
Tell people about it when you're finished! |
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Image Block
The image block is just an image, displayed in a block. In the live version of a cheat sheet (not the PDF) you can click on an image for full size.
Video Block
Video can be pulled in from YouTube or Vimeo, and will be shown on the website but not on the PDFs.
Live Content Block
Label |
Value |
Year |
2016 |
Month |
9 |
Day |
28 |
A "live content" block pulls its content from a URL, in a specific format. It's great for anything that changes regularly, like live statistics, up-to-the-minute sports results and tables, stock and share prices, TV schedules and even traffic and weather reports.
Icons
{{fa-rocket}} |
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{{fa-bold}} |
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{{fa-check}} |
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{{fa-leaf}} |
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{{fa-square-o}} |
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{{fa-cut}} |
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Borders and Alignment
{{ac}} |
Align text centrally |
{{ar}} |
Align text right |
{{bb}} |
Add border at bottom |
{{br}} |
Add border on right |
{{bl}} |
Add border on left |
{{bt}} |
Add border at top |
Formatting Options
Italics (example) |
*text* |
Bold (example) |
**text** |
Superscript (example) |
^text^ |
Strikethrough (example) |
~~text~~ |
Inline Code (code) |
`code` |
Asterisk (*) |
\* |
Carat (^) |
\^ |
Sometimes you want to use a "*" or "^" in your content. Add a backslash before those characters (as an escape character) to tell Cheatography to treat them as normal text instead of special formatting characters, like this: \* \^
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Breaks and Spacing
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Insert non-breaking space |
{{nl}} |
Line break |
{{noshy}} |
Do not insert shy hyphens |
{{nobreak}} |
Do not break long lines (only in list blocks) |
{{literal}} |
Do not format text |
Links
{{popup="http://..."}} |
Popup URL provided |
{{popup="http://..."}}link text{{/popup}} |
{{link="http://..."}} |
Link to URL provided |
{{link="http://..."}}link text{{/link}} |
Publishing
You can only publish a cheat sheet once. |
Before that, only you can see it, unless you share the "preview" URL. |
Newly published cheat sheets are prominent on Cheatography, so make the most of publishing and wait until you're happy with the cheat sheet! |
You can still edit a cheat sheet after you've published it. |
You can't unpublish a cheat sheet once it's been published. |
Language Support
Cheatography supports all languages, as best we can manage. |
This means that the web versions of cheat sheets support all of the languages we've seen so far, including Chinese and Japanese. |
We're working on right-to-left language support. |
Rating Guidelines
Not sure what rating to give? Here are some tips to help you rate fairly and consistently. |
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Superb. A great guide, likely to be useful to anyone interested in the topic. Probably well presented, at least a page long, and uses tags. |
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A good cheat sheet, with lots of useful information. Worth printing out a copy! |
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A decent cheat sheet, but missing some useful information. A useful reference, but could do with some improvement. |
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Room for improvement - probably not useful yet, but has potential with some more work. |
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A poor cheat sheet, likely accidentally published too soon, doesn't have much useful content, contains abuse, or with other serious problems. |
Rating Tips
If someone has rated one of your cheat sheets, please consider rating one of theirs. |
Avoid "revenge ratings". If you receive a low rating, bear in mind that not everyone will find your cheat sheets as useful as you do! |
Feel free to leave a shout for another user to ask for more information about why they left the rating they did. |
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Comments
How do you end a link tag?
Hi bradrer. Sorry for the slow reply! You don't end a link tag - when you link some text the whole piece of text that follows it will be linked.
Hi bradrer. You can now link specific text, like this: {{link="http://..."}}link text{{/link}}
Are you really working on "left-to-right language support," or "right-to-left language support?" It looks like you support English, which is left-to-right, quite well. :)
Whoops! Well spotted, I've fixed that.
I have a question about the links - they don't seem to work for me. when i place the {{popup=""}} tag anywhere in my block, all the text in it gets hyperlinked. How do I fix this?
Hi yayobelle. That's correct, that's how the links work. For your draft, you might be better off using the "one-column" layout for your blocks than using the "text" layout.
Where are the keyboard shortcuts of cheatography.com?
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