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 ''this''
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 different sizes |
==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 |
Paragraphs
Mediawiki ignores normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can also start a newline with the HTML tag <br>.
HTML
Some HTML-Tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example <code>, <div>, <span> and <font>.
More advanced formatting
Beyond the basic text formatting markup shown above, there are some more advanced formatting tricks: