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

Text formatting markup
{| class="wikitable" ! Description !! You type !! You get ! colspan="3" style="background:#ABE" | character (inline) formatting – applies anywhere ! colspan="3" style="background:#ABE" | section formatting – only at the beginning of the line
 * Italic text
 * italic
 * Bold text
 * bold
 * Bold and italic
 * bold & italic
 * Escape wiki markup
 * no markup
 * Bold and italic
 * bold & italic
 * Escape wiki markup
 * no markup
 * Escape wiki markup
 * no markup
 * no markup
 * no markup
 * Headings of different levels
 * =level 1=
 * =level 1=

level 6
An article with 4 or more headings automatically creates a table of contents.

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6
 * Horizontal rule
 * and  for breaking a line within an item may also be controversial.
 * 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 rather looks like the continuation of
 * often used instead of
 * 1) five
 * 2) five sub 1
 * 3) five sub 1 sub 1
 * 4) five sub 2
 * item 1
 * definition 1-1
 * definition 1-2
 * item 2
 * definition 2-1
 * definition 2-2
 * item 2
 * definition 2-1
 * definition 2-2

preformatted text is done with a space at the beginning of the line This way of preformatting only applies to section formatting, and character formatting markups are still effective. preformatted text is done with a space at the beginning of the line
 * Preformatted text
 * Preformatted text
 * Preformatted text
 * }

Paragraphs
MediaWiki ignores normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can force a line break within a paragraph with the HTML tags.

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

In some cases it may be interesting to use the HTML command e.g. to embed objects from external websites, e.g. google document gadgets. Besides the above mentioned setting  in, the command has to be embedded in a environment: ... Wikitext ...    ...   ... Wikitext ...

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


 * Links
 * Images
 * Tables