Help:Formatting

You can format your text by using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes 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 single quotes 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 italic bold bold bold & italic bold & italic &lt;nowiki>no markup</nowiki&gt; no markup ! colspan="3" style="background:#ABE" | section formatting – only at the beginning of the line
 * Italic text
 * Italic text
 * Bold text
 * Bold text
 * Bold and italic
 * Bold and italic
 * Escape wiki markup
 * Escape wiki markup
 * Headings of different levels
 * Headings of different levels

Level 6
Text above
 * Horizontal rule
 * Horizontal rule

Text below Text above

Text below Any other start ends the list. Any other start ends the list.
 * Bullet list
 * Bullet list
 * Start each line
 * with an asterisk (*).
 * More asterisks gives deeper
 * and deeper levels.
 * Line breaks don't break levels.
 * But jumping levels creates empty space.
 * Start each line
 * with an asterisk (*).
 * More asterisks gives deeper
 * and deeper levels.
 * Line breaks don't break levels.
 * But jumping levels creates empty space.
 * But jumping levels creates empty space.
 * Numbered list
 * Numbered list
 * 1) Start each line
 * 2) with a number sign (#).
 * 3) More number signs gives deeper
 * 4) and deeper
 * 5) levels.
 * 6) Line breaks don't break levels.
 * 7) But jumping levels creates empty space.
 * 8) Blank lines

Any other start also ends the list.
 * 1) end the list and start another.
 * 1) Start each line
 * 2) with a number sign (#).
 * 3) More number signs gives deeper
 * 4) and deeper
 * 5) levels.
 * 6) Line breaks don't break levels.
 * 7) But jumping levels creates empty space.
 * 8) Blank lines
 * 1) Blank lines

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


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


 * item 1
 * definition 1
 * definition 1


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


 * Indent text
 * Single indent
 * Double indent
 * Multiple indent
 * Double indent
 * Multiple indent


 * Single indent
 * Double indent
 * Multiple indent
 * Multiple indent


 * Mixture of different types of list
 * Mixture of different types of list
 * 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 of &lt;nowiki> &lt;/nowiki>
 * 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
 * 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 of
 * 1) five
 * 2) five sub 1
 * 3) five sub 1 sub 1
 * 4) five sub 2
 * Preformatted text
 * Preformatted text
 * Preformatted text

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

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.

Inserting HTML Symbols
HTML symbols not available on your keyboard can be inserted through sequences of characters. Those sequences are called HTML Symbol 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;

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

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


 * Links
 * Images
 * Tables