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
{| align="center"
 * |Description
 * |You type
 * |You get
 * colspan="3" align="center" | applies anywhere
 * Italic text
 *  italic 
 * italic
 * Bold text
 *  bold 
 * bold
 * Bold and italic
 *  bold & italic 
 * bold & italic
 * Escape wiki markup
 *  no markup  
 * no markup
 * colspan="3" align="center" | only at the beginning of the line
 * Headings of
 * Escape wiki markup
 *  no markup  
 * no markup
 * colspan="3" align="center" | only at the beginning of the line
 * Headings of
 * colspan="3" align="center" | only at the beginning of the line
 * Headings of
 * Headings of

different sizes  ==level 1== 

 ===level 2=== 

 ====level 3==== </tt>

 =====level 4===== </tt>

Level 4
 </tt>
 * Horizontal rule
 * Horizontal rule

&#42; one &#42; two &#42; three &#42;&#42; three and one-third &#42;&#42; three and two-thirds &#35; one
 * Bullet list
 * Bullet list
 * one
 * two
 * three
 * three and one-third
 * three and two-thirds
 * Numbered list
 * Numbered list
 * Numbered list

&#35; two  spanning several lines   without breaking the numbering

&#35; three

&#35;&#35; three point one

&#35;&#35; three point two

and numbered lists &#35; one
 * 1) one
 * 2) two spanning several lines without breaking the numbering
 * 3) three
 * 4) three point one
 * 5) three point two
 * Mixture of bulleted
 * Mixture of bulleted
 * Mixture of bulleted

&#35; two

&#35;&#42; two point one

&#35;&#42; two point two

&#59;Definition
 * 1) one
 * 2) two
 * 3) * two point one
 * 4) * two point two
 * Definition list
 * Definition list
 * Definition list

&#58;item 1

&#58;item 2


 * Definition
 * item 1
 * item 2
 * item 2

preformatted text is done with
 * Preformatted text
 * Preformatted text

a space at the

beginning of the line

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  </tt>.

HTML
Some HTML-Tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example  in LocalSettings.php. Switch off HTML completely with }}

More advanced formatting
Beyond the basic text formatting markup shown above, there are some more advanced formatting tricks:
 * Links
 * Images
 * Tables