Help:Formatting

You can format your text using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in ''italic'', you include it in two single quotes like <code><nowiki>''this''</nowiki></code>.

! Description !! You type !! You get

|Italic text

| <code><nowiki>''italic''</nowiki></code>

|''italic''

| <code><nowiki>'''bold'''</nowiki></code>

|'''bold'''

| <code><nowiki>'''''bold & italic'''''</nowiki></code>

|'''''bold & italic'''''

|Escape wiki markup

| <code><nowiki><nowiki>no ''markup''&lt;/nowiki></nowiki></code>

|<nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki>

|Headings of different levels  

| <pre>=level 1=

==level 2==

===level 3===

====level 4====

=====level 5=====

======level 6======</pre>

An article with 4 or more headings automatically creates a [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Section#Table of contents (TOC)|table of contents]].

<div style="font-size: 188%; margin: 0; padding-top: .5em; padding-bottom: .17em; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa">Level 1</div>

<div style="font-size: 150%; margin: 0; padding-top: .5em; padding-bottom: .17em; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa">Level 2</div>

<div style="font-size: 132%; font-weight: bold">Level 3</div><!--

--><b>Level 4</b><!--

--><div style="font-size: 86%; font-weight: bold">Level 5</div><!--

--><b style="font-size: 80%">Level 6</b>

|Horizontal rule

| <code>----</code>

|Bullet list

* one

* two

* three

** three point one

** three point two

* one

* two

* three

** three point one

** three point two

|Numbered list

# one

# two<br />spanning more lines<br />

doesn't break numbering

# three

## three point one

## three point two

# one

# two<br />spanning more lines<br />doesn't break numbering

# three

## three point one

## three point two

|Definition list

|<pre>

|

<pre>: Single indent

::::: Multiple indent</pre>

This workaround may be controversial from the viewpoint of accessibility.

#: this rather looks like

#: the continuation of # four

#: and thus often used

#: instead of <br />

The usage of <code>#:</code> and <code>*:</code> for breaking a line within an item may also be controversial.

#: this rather looks  

#: like the continuation

#: of <code># four</code>

#: often used instead

#: of <code>&lt;br /></code>

|Preformatted text

|

<pre>

  preformatted text is done with

  a '''space''' at the

  ''beginning'' of the line

This way of preformatting only applies to section formatting, and character formatting markups are still effective.

  preformatted text is done with

  a '''space''' at the

  ''beginning'' of the line

== HTML ==

!Description

!You type

!You get

| <code>&lt;del>Strikethrough&lt;/del></code> or

<code>&lt;s>Strikethrough&lt;/s></code>

|<del>Strikethrough</del>

| <code>&lt;tt>Fixed width text&lt;/tt></code> or  

| <tt>Fixed width text</tt> or <code>source code</code>

|Blockquotes

| <code>

text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text &lt;blockquote> quote quote quote quote quote quote &lt;/blockquote> text text text text text text text text text text text text

</code>

| text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text <blockquote> quote quote quote quote quote quote </blockquote> text text text text text text text text text text text text

|Comment

| <code>&lt;!-- This is a comment --></code>

<!-- This is a real invisible comment -->

|Completely preformatted text

<code><nowiki><pre>this way, all markups are '''ignored'''</pre></nowiki></code>

<pre> this way, all markups are '''ignored'''.</pre>

|'''Customized''' preformatted text

<code><nowiki><pre style="CSS text">this way, all markups are '''ignored''' and formatted with a CSS text</pre></nowiki></code>

<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;white-space:-moz-pre-wrap;white-space:-pre-wrap;white-space:-o-pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word;overflow:auto;">

this way for instance, all '''ignored''' markups take into account the navigator size, by automatically adding some carriage returns dynamically to it.</pre>

{{Admin tip|tip=If you trust your users you can allow full HTML by setting <code>{{mediawiki|Manual:$wgRawHtml|$wgRawHtml}} = true;</code> in {{mediawiki|Manual:LocalSettings.php|LocalSettings.php}}.}}

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