Help:Formatting
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Use the Sandbox to experiment with wiki editing.
Wiki pages can be formatted using several different kinds of commands: css, html
To edit a page, click on the edit tab near the top of the page. To edit a section of the page, click on the edit link at the top of the section on the right.
Enter or delete text as you would in other applications. The basic formatting comands are described below.
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[edit] Basic Editing
The following formatting commands are mostly ones that you could figure out by using the buttons above this editing box.
See Help:Editing for information about how to create pages and begin editing a page. This page contains information about how to format or change the "look" of a page.
[edit] Text Formatting
[edit] Using Wiki command formats:
Bold text - make text bold with triple single quotes. '''bold''' will make text bold.
Italic text - make text italic with double single quotes, like ' ' italic ' '
To create bullet points, put a * at the beginning of a line.
- like
- this
[edit] Using HTML commands:
Bold text - make text bold by putting <b> in front of it and </b> at the end. <b>bold</b> will make text bold.
<i> and </i> will start and stop italics. So <i>text phrase</i> becomes text phrase.
[edit] Adding Links
The URL for the main page of Wikia is http://www.wikicities.com/index.php/Wikia. To create a link to it from another page within Wikia (an "internal link"), the format is [[Wikia]] which creates Wikia.
If the name of the internal link and the text label you want to appear are different, give the page name, a vertical line and then the label. [[Wikia:Sandbox|Sandbox]] which creates Sandbox.
More about links... (probably should be cleaned up)
title - is an example (non-functioning link) from the word or label "title" to a a non-existent (Since, no page for "target" exists -- at least not when this was written -- this link will appear in red and will take you to a page were you could create such a page.) The format is [[target|title]]. Put internal links in double square brackets, like [[ ]] with the link first and the title or label for the link after a vertical line "|" [[link-goes-here|title]]
example external link - is an example link from the words "link title" to http://www.example.com. Put external links in single square brackets, like [ ] with the link first and the title or label for the link after a space [http://link-goes-here title]. The link at the beginning of this paragraph was created with [http://www.example.com example external link]
[edit] Headline text
Level 2 Headline - double equal sign on either side of the text, like ==header==
ah, non wiki text <nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here </nowiki> So, using the nowiki command instead of spaces to change the commands... Level 2 Headline - looks like the "Headline text" above, create by using double equal signs (==) on both sides of the headline text. For example, the line == Headline text == created the header for this section.
[edit] Third Level
Level 3 Headline - use a triple equal sign on either side of the text: === Third Level === created the header for this point.
[edit] Other Formatting
To be filled in later...
box
- numbered
- list
* combinations of formatting comands
signatures
- tabs
- and more tabs
- what?
See Help:Advanced Editing for more formatting commands you can use.
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Most text formatting in Wikia is done with wiki markup, so you don't have to learn or remember the intricate syntax of HTML. Also see Wikia's new WYSIWYG editor currently in development.
Bold and italics
Bold and italics are added by surrounding a word or phrase with multiple apostrophes ('):
- ''italics'' is rendered as italics. (2 apostrophes on either side)
- '''bold''' is rendered as bold. (3 apostrophes on either side)
- '''''bolded italics''''' is rendered as bolded italics. (2 + 3 = 5 apostrophes on either side)
Headings and subheadings
Headings and subheadings are an easy way to improve the organization of an article. If you can see two or more distinct topics being discussed, you can break up your article by inserting a heading for each section.
Headings can be created like this:
- ==Top level heading== (2 equals signs)
- ===Subheading=== (3 equals signs)
- ====Another level down==== (4 equals signs)
- =====Another level down===== (5 equals signs)
If an article has at least three headings, a table of contents (TOC) will be automatically generated. Try creating some headings in the sandbox and see the effect on the TOC.
Indenting
To indent text, place a colon (:) at the beginning of a line. The more colons you put, the further indented the text will be. A newline (pressing Enter or Return) marks the end of the indented paragraph.
For example:
This is aligned all the way to the left.
:This is indented slightly.
::This is indented more.
is shown as:
This is aligned all the way to the left.
- This is indented slightly.
- This is indented more.
Bullet points
To insert a bullet, use an asterisk (*). Similar to indentation, more asterisks in front of a paragraph means more indentation.
A brief example:
- *First list item
- *Second list item
- **Sub-list item under second
- *Isn't this fun?
Which is shown as:
- First list item
- Second list item
- Sub-list item under second
- Isn't this fun?
Numbered lists
You can also create numbered lists. For this, use the number sign or hash symbol (#). Using more #s will affect the level of indenting.
Example:
- #First item
- #Second item
- ##Sub-item under second item
- #Third item
Shows up as:
- First item
- Second item
- Sub-item under second item
- Third item
Table of contents
As described above, any article with more than three headings will automatically generate a Table of Contents just before the first heading. The Table of Contents can be manually positioned using the following code:
__TOC__
To align a Table of Contents to the right, you could place it in a right-aligned table, such as:
{| style="margin-right: auto;"
|__TOC__
|}
In order to force a TOC on a page with less than 3 headings, put __TOC__ somewhere on the page.
