Help:Formatting

You can format your text by using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, apostrophes or equal signs 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 pairs of apostrophes like.

Text formatting markup
{| class="wikitable" ! Description ! width=40% | You type ! width=40% | You get ! colspan="3" style="background: #ABE" | Character (inline) formatting – applies anywhere Italic text  italic   italic  Bold text  bold   bold  Bold and italic  bold & italic   bold & italic  Strike text strike text strike text Escape wiki markup &lt;nowiki&gt; no markup &lt;/nowiki&gt; no markup Escape wiki markup once API&lt;nowiki/> extension API extension ! colspan="3" style="background: #ABE" | Section formatting – only at the beginning of the line Headings of different levels

Level 6


Level 2

Level 3

Level 4

Level 5

Level 6 Horizontal rule Text before

Text after Text before

Text after Bullet list

don't break levels. Any other start ends the list.
 * Start each line
 * with an asterisk (*).
 * More asterisks give deeper
 * and deeper levels.
 * Line breaks
 * But jumping levels creates empty space.

don't break levels. Any other start ends the list. Numbered list
 * Start each line
 * with an asterisk (*).
 * More asterisks give deeper
 * and deeper levels.
 * Line breaks
 * But jumping levels creates empty space.

don't break levels.
 * 1) Start each line
 * 2) with a number sign (#).
 * 3) More number signs give deeper
 * 4) and deeper
 * 5) levels.
 * 6) Line breaks
 * 1) But jumping levels creates empty space.
 * 2) Blank lines

Any other start also ends the list.
 * 1) end the list and start another.

don't break levels.
 * 1) Start each line
 * 2) with a number sign (#).
 * 3) More number signs give deeper
 * 4) and deeper
 * 5) levels.
 * 6) Line breaks
 * 1) But jumping levels creates empty space.
 * 2) Blank lines

Any other start also ends the list. Definition list
 * 1) end the list and start another.


 * item 1
 * definition 1


 * item 2
 * definition 2-1
 * definition 2-2




 * item 1
 * definition 1


 * item 2
 * definition 2-1
 * definition 2-2

Indent text


 * Single indent
 * Double indent
 * Multiple indent




 * Single indent
 * Double indent
 * Multiple indent

Mixture of different types of list

of &lt;nowiki> &lt;/nowiki>
 * 1) one
 * 2) two
 * 3) * two point one
 * 4) * two point two
 * 5) three
 * 6) ; three item one
 * three def one
 * 1) four
 * four def one
 * this looks like a continuation
 * and is often used
 * instead
 * 1) five
 * 2) five sub 1
 * 3) five sub 1 sub 1
 * 4) five sub 2



of
 * 1) one
 * 2) two
 * 3) * two point one
 * 4) * two point two
 * 5) three
 * 6) ; three item one
 * three def one
 * 1) four
 * four def one
 * this looks like a continuation
 * and is often used
 * instead

Preformatted text Start each line with a space. Text is preformatted and markups can be done.
 * 1) five
 * 2) five sub 1
 * 3) five sub 1 sub 1
 * 4) five sub 2

Start each line with a space. Text is preformatted and markups can be done. Preformatted text blocks Start with a space in the first column, (before the ).

Then your block format will be   maintained. This is good for copying in code blocks:

def function: """documentation string"""

if True: print True else: print False Start with a space in the first column, (before the ).

Then your block format will be   maintained.

This is good for copying in code blocks:

def function: """documentation string"""

if True: print True else: print False
 * }

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 tag.

HTML tags
Some HTML tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example,  ,   and. These apply anywhere you insert them.

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Inserting symbols
Symbols and other special characters not available on your keyboard can be inserted through a special sequence of characters. Those sequences are called HTML entities. For example, the following sequence (entity) &amp;rarr; when inserted will be shown as right arrow HTML symbol &rarr; and &amp;mdash; when inserted will be shown as an em dash HTML symbol &mdash;.

See the list of all HTML entities on the Wikipedia article List of HTML entities. Additionally, MediaWiki supports two non-standard entity reference sequences:  and   which are both considered equivalent to   which is a right-to-left mark. (Used when combining right to left languages with left to right languages in the same page.) cowhide rug 

HTML tags and symbol entities displayed themselves (with and without interpreting them)

 * &amp;amp;euro; &rarr; &amp;euro;


 * &lt;span style="color: red; text-decoration: line-through;">

Typo to be corrected &lt;/span> &rarr; ''' Typo to be corrected '''


 * 

&amp;lt;span style="color: red; text-decoration: line-through;">Typo to be corrected   &rarr; '''&lt;span style="color: red; text-decoration: line-through;"> Typo to be corrected &lt;/span>'''

Nowiki for HTML
< nowiki /> can prohibit (HTML) tags: But not &amp; symbol escapes: To print &amp; symbol escapes as text, use "&amp;amp;" to replace the "&" character (eg. type "&amp;amp;nbsp;", which results in "&amp;nbsp;").
 * < pre> &rarr;
 * &< nowiki />amp; &rarr; &amp;

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


 * links>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Links|Links
 * lists>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Lists|Lists
 * images>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Images</>|Images
 * References - see citephp>Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Cite/Cite.php</>|Extension:Cite/Cite.php
 * tables>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Tables</>|Tables

You can find more references at help-contents>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents</>|Help:Contents.