Help:Formatting

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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 codenowikithis/nowiki/code

Text formatting markup

Description	You type	You get
character formatting - applies anywhere
Italic text	pre'xcvxvx'italic'fvsdcsd'/pre	italic
Bold text	prebold/pre	bold
Bold and italic	prebold italic/pre	bold italic
Escape wiki markup	prelt;nowikino markup/nowiki/pre	nowikino markup/nowiki
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 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 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.

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 ignoredlt;/pre/pre	pre this way, all markups are ignored/pre

Tip for wiki admins: If you trust your users you can allow full HTML by setting code{{ #ifeq: tighar.org

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$wgRawHtml

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www.mediawiki.org

LocalSettings.php

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Other formatting

Beyond the text formatting markup shown above, here are some other formatting references:

• Links
• Images
• Tables