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
 * Bold and italic
 * bold &amp; 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.
 * 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.

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

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


 * Links
 * Images
 * Tables