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A cheat sheet for making cheat sheets on Cheatography.
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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

Block Type:
Two Columns
Useful For:
Transl­ations
 
Key / Value Pairs
 
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

1
1
2
3
5
8
13
21
34
55
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

A
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

What is this?
A Q&A block displays each question with the answer indented undern­eath.
When is it useful?
It's great for question and answer content!

Bar Chart Block

Red
 12
Green
 24
Orange
 88
Blue
 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!
 

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
2018
Month
9
Day
26
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}}
{{fa-bold}}
{{fa-check}}
{{fa-leaf}}
{{fa-square-o}}
{{fa-cut}}
Icons work in block titles as well as content. There is a cheat sheet for Font Awesome icons at http:/­/ww­w.c­hea­tog­rap­hy.c­om­/da­vec­hil­d/c­hea­t-s­hee­ts/­fon­t-a­wesome/

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: \* \^
 

Breaks and Spacing

&nbsp;
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.
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.
A good cheat sheet, with lots of useful inform­ation. Worth printing out a copy!
A decent cheat sheet, but missing some useful inform­ation. A useful reference, but could do with some improv­ement.
Room for improv­ement - probably not useful yet, but has potential with some more work.
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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Metadata

  • Languages: English
  • Published: 19th February, 2014
  • Rated: 5 stars based on 476 ratings

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Comments

bradrer bradrer, 03:42 26 Jul 14

How do you end a link tag?

DaveChild DaveChild, 15:46 12 Nov 14

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.

DaveChild DaveChild, 11:22 19 Feb 15

Hi bradrer. You can now link specific text, like this: {{link="http://..."}}link text{{/link}}

jgmon jgmon, 16:30 20 Sep 18

link not found

Joe Sewell Joe Sewell, 17:05 27 Aug 14

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. :)

DaveChild DaveChild, 17:05 27 Aug 14

Whoops! Well spotted, I've fixed that.

yayobelle yayobelle, 01:51 4 Dec 14

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?

DaveChild DaveChild, 10:05 4 Dec 14

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.

Tal Tal, 14:44 7 Nov 15

Where are the keyboard shortcuts of cheatography.com?

belay bekele belay bekele, 12:59 27 Jan 16

i happy to join your site

pirithiumx pirithiumx, 01:38 16 May 16

very well done, looking forward to diggin in.

Sp33dey Sp33dey, 13:29 20 May 16

hey together :)

rthomasmia rthomasmia, 19:10 15 Dec 16

Looking forward to learning to create cheat sheets.

khackinson khackinson, 16:00 20 Jun 17

Well done. Thanks

jarmenta27 jarmenta27, 20:10 9 Aug 17

Love this!!! Thanks to all who has made this for everyone to see

jeb6 jeb6, 04:28 8 Sep 17

This is great! This will definitely save time and sanity.

Daniel HR Daniel HR, 22:31 3 Oct 17

Awesome job . love it

doktrjay doktrjay, 13:24 27 Oct 17

Thanks for the help!

liudonghua123 liudonghua123, 08:42 1 Nov 17

Thanks for the help!

Dheeraj Kumar Dheeraj Kumar, 10:16 18 Nov 17

This website is very impressive and useful for all

pastel-galaxies pastel-galaxies, 18:49 4 Jan 18

How do you use the {{literal}} effect? I want part of the text in my box to be formatted literally, then the rest to be normal. I can't figure out how to get the literal formatting to stop in the middle of a sentence.

DaveChild DaveChild, 11:04 19 Aug 18

The {{literal}} flag affects the entire box, you can't stop it part-way through (yet).

ryanstewart047 ryanstewart047, 16:42 10 Jan 18

I'm new here, can someone tell me what i need to know first?

Ali Mohamed Salah Ali Mohamed Salah, 22:25 10 Apr 18

I'm new here, thanks. I am happy to follow this page

camazur camazur, 15:11 20 Jun 18

Great quick user friendly tour

Monz gomz Monz gomz, 19:18 10 Jul 18

Me encanta la idea

oscarmolivera oscarmolivera, 21:35 2 Aug 18

Great Site. Most appreciated!

nadinet nadinet, 22:07 8 Aug 18

looking forward to using cheatography

MichaelTheGamer MichaelTheGamer, 00:31 28 Sep 18

Hey all! Good to be here! Does CommonMark Or Markdown work in this Comments Section?
Also, can we _import_ any **Cheatsheets** at all? Anyway, going to try d/l'ing a few. Hope to see you all out there.

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magisi magisi, 10:47 3 Dec 18

Glad I came across this website. Looking forward to creating these fab cheat sheets. Thank you!

Dr. Doomed Dr. Doomed, 17:12 19 Dec 18

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Fuqrai Fuqrai, 09:01 27 Dec 18

I'm new but think it's quite handy to join for wide array of uses...

Bo42 Bo42, 03:46 4 Mar 19

I trust this will be a useful website

kaliu kaliu, 18:12 13 Apr 19

Thank you for this well Organized site

i am happy i found you
many thanks for all your hard work

ANANTHAKUMAR ANANTHAKUMAR, 12:20 27 May 19

I need all commonds

ironic ironic, 16:19 25 Jun 19

That's pretty meta

Tina3874 Tina3874, 10:24 28 Jul 19

So excite to get started

michaeldurland michaeldurland, 17:21 28 Sep 19

The authoring features are fantastic.
I wish there was more control over printing to PDF.
For example, landscape PDF, paper sizes, and column breaks and page breaks.
It would be nice if the PDF was more WYSIWYG with respect to the online viewing.

jfbuendia jfbuendia, 02:42 9 Oct 19

Thanks for the cheats!

lashandac lashandac, 18:35 10 Oct 19

Thanks for the cheats

shimmer_sombra_queen shimmer_sombra_queen, 04:03 22 Oct 19

Thank you for the clarification!

Rebal Rebal, 07:13 12 Dec 19

many thanks for all your hard work ❤️

Franken-Katalog Franken-Katalog, 12:23 15 Dec 19

Thank you for all this, what a great idea!

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