Help:Formatting

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{{PD Help Page}} 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>. == Text formatting markup == {| class="wikitable" ! Description !! You type !! You get |- ! colspan="3" style="background:#ABE" | character (inline) formatting – ''applies anywhere'' |- |Italic text | <code><nowiki>''italic''</nowiki></code> |''italic'' |- | Bold text | <code><nowiki>'''bold'''</nowiki></code> |'''bold''' |- | Bold and italic | <code><nowiki>'''''bold & italic'''''</nowiki></code> |'''''bold & italic''''' |- |Escape wiki markup | <code><nowiki><nowiki>no ''markup''&lt;/nowiki></nowiki></code> |<nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki> |- ! colspan="3" style="background:#ABE" | section formatting – ''only at the beginning of the line'' |- |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]]. |<!-- hack to prevent TOC viewing for h1 - h6 elements: their style is hardcopied here --> <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 | <pre> * one * two * three ** three point one ** three point two </pre> Inserting a blank line will end the first list and start another. | * one * two * three ** three point one ** three point two |- |Numbered list | <pre> # one # two<br />spanning more lines<br /> doesn't break numbering # three ## three point one ## three point two </pre> | # one # two<br />spanning more lines<br />doesn't break numbering # three ## three point one ## three point two |- |Definition list |<pre> ;item 1 : definition 1 ;item 2 : definition 2-1 : definition 2-2 </pre> | ;item 1 : definition 1 ;item 2 : definition 2-1 : definition 2-2 |- | Adopting definition list to indent text | <pre>: Single indent :: Double indent ::::: Multiple indent</pre> This workaround may be controversial from the viewpoint of accessibility. | : Single indent :: Double indent ::::: Multiple indent |- | Mixture of different types of list | <pre> # one # two #* two point one #* two point two # three #; three item one #: three def one # four #: four def one #: this rather looks like the continuation of # four #: and thus often used instead of <br /> # five ## five sub 1 ### five sub 1 sub 1 ## five sub 2 ;item 1 :* definition 1-1 :* definition 1-2 : ;item 2 :# definition 2-1 :# definition 2-2 </pre> The usage of <code>#:</code> and <code>*:</code> for breaking a line within an item may also be controversial. | # one # two #* two point one #* two point two # three #; three item one #: three def one # four #: four def one #: this rather looks like the continuation of <code># four</code> #: often used instead of <code>&lt;br /></code> # five ## five sub 1 ### five sub 1 sub 1 ## five sub 2 ;item 1 :* definition 1-1 :* definition 1-2 : ;item 2 :# definition 2-1 :# definition 2-2 |- |- |Preformatted text | <pre> preformatted text is done with a '''space''' at the ''beginning'' of the line </pre> 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 |} == Paragraphs == MediaWiki ignores single line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can force a line break within a paragraph with the HTML tags <code>&lt;br /></code>. == HTML == Some [[wikipedia:HTML|HTML]] tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example <code>&lt;code></code>, <code>&lt;div></code>, <code><nowiki><span></nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki><font></nowiki></code>. These apply anywhere you insert them. {| class="wikitable" !Description !You type !You get |- | Strikethrough | <code>&lt;del>Strikethrough&lt;/del></code> or <code>&lt;s>Strikethrough&lt;/s></code> |<del>Strikethrough</del> |- style="white-space:nowrap" |Fixed width text | <code>&lt;tt>Fixed width text&lt;/tt></code> or <code>&lt;code>source code&lt;/code></code> | <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> Text can only be viewed in the edit window. | <!-- 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}}.}} == Other formatting == Beyond the text formatting markup shown above, here are some other formatting references: *[[Help:Links|Links]] * [[Help:Images|Images]] * [[Help:Tables|Tables]] {{Languages}} [[Category:Help|Formatting]]

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