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
{| ! Description ! You type ! You get ! style="background: #abe" colspan="3" | character (inline) formatting – applies anywhere ! style="background: #abe" colspan="3" | section formatting – only at the beginning of the line
 * Italic text
 * italic
 * Bold text
 * bold
 * Bold and italic
 * bold &amp; italic
 * Escape wiki markup
 * no markup
 * colspan="2" | Inserting special characters not found on your keyboard such as: ö (umlaut), £ (pound), and € (euro).
 * See Special characters.
 * bold &amp; italic
 * Escape wiki markup
 * no markup
 * colspan="2" | Inserting special characters not found on your keyboard such as: ö (umlaut), £ (pound), and € (euro).
 * See Special characters.
 * no markup
 * colspan="2" | Inserting special characters not found on your keyboard such as: ö (umlaut), £ (pound), and € (euro).
 * See Special characters.
 * See Special characters.
 * 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.
 * 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
 * 1) five sub 2


 * item 1


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


 * definition 2-1
 * definition 2-2

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
 * preformatted text is done with
 * preformatted text is done with

preformatted text is done with a space at the

beginning of the line


 * }

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 tags.

Non-breaking space
A non-breaking space can be used hen you require two words to always appear together on the same line. Placing &amp;nbsp; between two words will prevent the two words from being split apart.

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

Spell Check
While in the wiki text view, any text that is underlined in red should be reviewed for accuracy of spelling, right click for choices.

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


 * Links
 * Images
 * Tables