Help:Formatting
You can format your text using wiki markup (aka wikitext). 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 ''this''
The below examples serve as an introduction to wikitext. For a more comprehensive introduction, see the examples at meta.wikimedia.org.
Text formatting markup
Description | You type | You get |
applies anywhere | ||
Italic text | ''italic'' | italic |
Bold text | '''bold''' | bold |
Bold and italic | '''''bold & italic''''' | bold & italic |
Escape wiki markup | <nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki> | no ''markup'' |
only at the beginning of the line | ||
Headings of |
==level 1== |
Level 1Level 2Level 3Level 4 |
Horizontal rule |
---- |
|
Bullet list |
* one |
|
Numbered list |
# one |
|
Mixture of bulleted and numbered lists |
# one |
|
Definition list |
;Definition |
|
Preformatted text |
preformatted text is done with |
preformatted text is done with a space at the beginning of the line |
Notes:
Paragraphs
MediaWiki ignores normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can also start a new line with the HTML tags <br> or <br/>.
HTML
Some HTML tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example <code>, <div>, <span> and <font>.
Other formatting
Beyond the text formatting markup shown above, here are some other formatting references: