Help:Formatting

As discussed at MediaWiki's help formatting page, 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" ! style="width:15%" |Description ! style="width:45%" |You type ! style="width:40%" |You get ! colspan="3" align="center" | character formatting - applies anywhere &lt;nowiki>no markup ! colspan="3" align="center" | section formatting - only at the beginning of the line =level 1=
 * Italic text
 * italic
 * italic
 * Bold text
 * bold
 * bold
 * Bold and italic
 * bold & italic
 * bold & italic
 * Escape wiki markup
 * bold & italic
 * bold & italic
 * Escape wiki markup
 * Escape wiki markup
 * no markup
 * Headings of different levels
 * Headings of different levels

level 6
An article with four or more headings will automatically create a table of contents.

Use of a level 1 heading is highly discouraged as it appears with the same formatting and size as the page title, which can be confusing.

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6
 * Horizontal rule
 * Horizontal rule

Inserting a blank line will end the first list and start another. spanning several lines without breaking the numbering spanning several lines without breaking the numbering
 * Bullet list
 * Bullet list
 * one
 * two
 * three
 * three point one
 * three point two
 * one
 * two
 * three
 * three point one
 * three point two
 * Numbered list
 * Numbered list
 * Numbered list
 * 1) one
 * 2) two
 * 1) three
 * 2) three point one
 * 3) three point two
 * 1) one
 * 2) two
 * 1) two
 * 1) three
 * 2) three point one
 * 3) three point two
 * Definition list
 * Definition list
 * item 1
 * definition 1


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


 * item 1
 * definition 1
 * definition 1


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


 * Adopting definition list to indent text
 * Adopting definition list to indent text
 * Double indent
 * Multiple indent

This adoption may be controversial from the viewpoint of accessibility.
 * Single indent
 * Double indent
 * Multiple indent
 * Multiple indent


 * Mixture of different types of list
 * Mixture of different types of list
 * 1) one
 * 2) two
 * 3) * two point one
 * 4) * two point two
 * 5) three
 * 6) ; three def one
 * three item one
 * 1) four
 * four item one
 * this rather looks like the continuation of # four
 * and thus often used instead of


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

The usage of  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 def one
 * three item one
 * 1) four
 * four item one
 * this rather looks like the continuation of
 * and thus often used instead of
 * item 1
 * definition 1-1
 * definition 1-2
 * item 2
 * definition 2-1
 * definition 2-2
 * 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.

Other formatting
Beyond the text formatting markup shown above, here are some other formatting references:
 * Links
 * Images
 * Tables