Help:Formatting

You can format your text by using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, apostrophes or equal signs 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 pairs of apostrophes like.

Text formatting markup
{| class="wikitable" ! Description ! width=40% | You type ! width=40% | You get ! colspan="3" style="background: #ABE" | Section formatting – only at the beginning of the line
 * Headings of different levels
 * Headings of different levels

Level 6


Level 2

Level 3

Level 4

Level 5

Level 6

Text before
 * Horizontal rule
 * Horizontal rule

Text after Text before

Text after
 * }

Lists
Wiki markup allows you to create bulleted or numbered lists.

Bullet list
You type: don't break levels. Any other start ends the list. You get: don't break levels. Any other start ends the list.
 * Start each line
 * with an asterisk (*).
 * More asterisks give deeper
 * and deeper levels.
 * Line breaks
 * But jumping levels creates empty space.
 * Start each line
 * with an asterisk (*).
 * More asterisks give deeper
 * and deeper levels.
 * Line breaks
 * But jumping levels creates empty space.

Numbered List
You type: don't break levels.
 * 1) Start each line
 * 2) with a number sign (#).
 * 3) More number signs give deeper
 * 4) and deeper
 * 5) levels.
 * 6) Line breaks
 * 1) But jumping levels creates empty space.
 * 2) Blank lines

Any other start also ends the list. You get: don't break levels.
 * 1) end the list and start another.
 * 1) Start each line
 * 2) with a number sign (#).
 * 3) More number signs give deeper
 * 4) and deeper
 * 5) levels.
 * 6) Line breaks
 * 1) But jumping levels creates empty space.
 * 2) Blank lines

Any other start also ends the list.
 * 1) end the list and start another.

General Preformatted Text
You type: Start each line with a space. Text is preformatted and markups can be done. You get:  Start each line with a space. Text is preformatted and markups can be done.

Preformatted Text Blocks
You type: Start with a space in the first column, (before the ).

Then your block format will be   maintained. This is good for copying in code blocks:

def function: """documentation string"""

if True: print True else: print False You get:  Start with a space in the first column, (before the ).

Then your block format will be   maintained. This is good for copying in code blocks:

def function: """documentation string"""

if True: print True else: print False

Completely preformatted text
You type: Text is preformatted and markups cannot be done&lt;/pre> You get: Text is preformatted and markups cannot be done

Customized preformatted text
You type:  Text is preformatted with a style and markups cannot be done You get:  Text is preformatted with a style and markups cannot be done

Preformatted text with wrap
You type: You get:

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 tag.

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

Inserting symbols
Symbols and other special characters not available on your keyboard can be inserted through a special sequence of characters. Those sequences are called HTML entities. For example, the following sequence (entity) &amp;rarr; when inserted will be shown as right arrow HTML symbol &rarr; and &amp;mdash; when inserted will be shown as an em dash HTML symbol &mdash;.

You can find more references at Help:Contents.