HumbleWiki:Tutorial Formatting



Formatting Wiki articles is a bit different from writing on a standard word processor. Instead of "What You See Is What You Get" approach, Wiki uses text codes to create particular elements of the page (e.g. headings). This "language" is known as Wiki-markup and is designed for ease of editing.

Bold and italics
The most commonly used wiki tags are bold and italics. Bolding and italicizing are done by surrounding a word or phrase with multiple apostrophes('):

Lists
The basic list types are Ordered and unordered lists, they are created by placing # or * in the beginning of each line, for examples.

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 the article by inserting a heading for each section.

{| style="background: #f9f9f9; width: 100%; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 1em 1em 1em 0;" ! style="background: #f2f2f2; border: 1px #aaa solid; width: 50%;" | What it looks like ! style="background: #f2f2f2; border: 1px #aaa solid; width: 50%;" | What you type
 * style="border: 1px #aaa solid; padding: 0.2em;"|
 * style="border: 1px #aaa solid; padding: 0.2em;"|

Section headings
Headings organize your writing into sections.

Subsection
Using more "equals" (=) signs creates a subsection.

A smaller subsection
Don't skip levels, like from two to four equals signs.


 * style="border: 1px #aaa solid; padding: 0.2em;"|

Section headings
Headings organize your writing into sections.

Subsection
Using more "equals" (=) signs creates a subsection.

A smaller subsection
Don't skip levels, like from two to four equals signs.
 * }

If an article has at least four headings, a table of contents will automatically be generated. Try creating a heading in this page's sandbox. It will be added automatically to the table of contents for the page, assuming three others already exist.

Paragraphs
Humblewiki 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
Wikitext contains all the features required to follow Wikipedia's formatting conventions and knowledge of HTML code is not necessary, although it is often used for more specific formatting such as using colors, text and paragraph styles, and page layout.



For more information and advanced features refer to Lists page.

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