Help:Formatting

2009-02-09T14:07:36Z

193.40.5.245: /* Text formatting markup */

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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 codenowiki''this''/nowiki/code

== Text formatting markup ==
{| class=wikitable
! style=width:15% |Description
! style=width:45% |You type
! style=width:40% |You get
|-
! colspan=3 align=center | character formatting - ''applies anywhere''
|-
|Italic text
|pre'xcvxvx'italic'fvsdcsd'/pre
|''italic''
|-
| Bold text
|pre'''bold'''/pre
|'''bold'''
|-
| Bold and italic
|pre'''''bold italic'''''/pre
|'''''bold italic'''''
|-
|Escape wiki markup
|
prelt;nowikino ''markup''/nowiki/pre
|nowikino ''markup''/nowiki
|-
! colspan=3 align=center | 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 four or more headings will automatically create a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Section#Table_of_contents_.28TOC.29 table of contents].

Use of a level 1 heading is '''''highly discouraged''''' as it appears with the same formatting and size as the page title, which can be confusing.
|
!-- little hack to prevent TOC viewing --
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%; border-bottom: none; font-weight: bold;Level 3/div
div style=font-size: 100%; border-bottom: none; font-weight: bold;Level 4/div
div style=font-size: 86%; border-bottom: none; font-weight: bold;Level 5/div
div style=font-size: 80%; border-bottom: none; font-weight: bold;Level 6/div
|-
|Horizontal rule
|
pre----/pre
|
----
|-
|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
# twobr /spanning several linesbr /without breaking the numbering
# three
## three point one
## three point two
/pre
|
# one
# twobr /spanning several linesbr /without breaking the 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 adoption 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 def one
#: three item one
# four
#: four item one
#: this rather looks like the continuation of # four
#: and thus often used instead of br /
;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 def one
#: three item one
# four
#: four item one
#: this rather looks like the continuation of code# four/code
#: and thus often used instead of codenowikibr //nowiki/code
;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 normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can force to start a new line within a paragraph with the HTML tags codenowikibr / or br/nowiki/code.

== HTML ==
Some [[wikipedia:HTML|HTML]] tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example codenowikicode/nowiki/code, codenowikidiv/nowiki/code, codenowikispan/nowiki/code and codenowikifont/nowiki/code. These applies anywhere you insert them.

{| class=wikitable
!Description
!You type
!You get
|-
|Fixed width text
|
prettFixed width text/tt/pre
|
ttFixed width text/tt
|-
|Blockquotes
|
pre
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
/pre
|
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
|
pre!--This is comment--/pre
|
!--This is comment--
|-
|Completely preformatted text
|
preprethis way, all markups are '''ignored'''lt;/pre/pre
|
pre
this way, all markups are '''ignored'''/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]]

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