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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 2===
====level 3====
=====level 4=====
|
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
|
| Horizontal rule
|
----
|
|
| Bullet list
|
* one
* two
* three
** three and one-third
** three and two-thirds
|
- one
- two
- three
- three and one-third
- three and two-thirds
|
| Numbered list
|
# one
# two
# three
## three point one
## three point two
|
- one
- two
- three
- three point one
- three point two
|
Mixture of bulleted
and numbered lists
|
# one
# two
#* two point one
#* two point two
|
- one
- two
- two point one
- two point two
|
| Definition list
|
;Definition
:item 1
:item 2
|
- Definition
- item 1
- item 2
|
| Preformatted text
|
preformatted text is done with
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 <br />.
HTML
Some HTML-Tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example <code>, <div>, <span> and <font>.
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| Tip for wiki admins: If you trust your users you can allow full HTML by setting $wgRawHtml = true; in LocalSettings.php. Switch off HTML completely with $wgUserHtml = false;
|
More advanced formatting
Beyond the basic text formatting markup shown above, there are some more advanced formatting tricks:
