LinkedIn post preview: see your post before you publish

Write or paste it into this preview and it is drawn the way the feed shows it, on a phone, a tablet or a desktop, with the see more cut, your line breaks and any photos or video. You see what your network will see before you post.

After about three lines. On a phone that is roughly the first 140 characters, on a desktop about 210, and fewer when you use short lines. Everything after the cut waits behind see more, so your opening has to earn the tap.

LinkedIn has no formatting buttons, so the letters are swapped for styled Unicode ones that look bold or italic and keep their look when pasted. Select the words here, press Bold or Italic, then copy the post into LinkedIn.

Used on a few words, it helps a reader find the point. Used on whole paragraphs, it gets harder to read, screen readers read the styled letters out one by one, and search may not find those words. Keep it to a phrase or two.

Not if it is between 3:1 wide and 4:5 tall: LinkedIn shows a single photo in its own shape within that range, and centres and crops anything outside it. 1080 by 1350 pixels is the tallest photo that shows whole. Add yours here to see the frame.

3,000 characters. Each bold, italic or styled letter counts as two, so heavy formatting uses the limit up faster. The count under the editor turns red when you go over.

Yes. A phone wraps lines sooner and cuts the post earlier, so an opening that fits on a desktop can be half hidden on a phone. Switch the preview between phone, tablet and desktop to check each.

It is free with no sign up. Your text, photos and video stay in your browser: nothing is uploaded, stored or sent anywhere.

Yes. Press Write with innernote and sign in, and your draft comes with you. innernote writes and edits posts in your own voice, then shows you this same preview before you publish or schedule.