Help:Wikitext

Wikitext is the main markup language used to format content on Fandom. It can be used to add photos, tables, bold styles, links, and many other visual changes.

It's not necessary to know wikitext in order to edit a page: you can use the VisualEditor to avoid it. However, users who learn it may appreciate the additional control they have over page content.

Wikitext can be used via source editor in either editor. To access an article's wikitext:
 * VisualEditor: click "" in the top middle, above the edit bar, which will open a menu where you can select "".
 * Before editing, you can go right to source mode by clicking the arrow next to the edit button, and clicking "" from the drop-down menu.
 * When editing a section of an article, click "" to edit that section in source.

On both platforms, you can also choose your preferred editor in preferences, and it will open by default when you click the edit button.

Below is an outline of basic wikitext that you can use while editing. Many of the options listed below have shortcut buttons in the editor toolbars.

Text formatting
{| class="article-table" style="width:100%; font-size:90%;" ! style="width:25%;" | Description ! style="width:45%;" | You type ! style="width:30%;" | You get A Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article.
 * +Code that works only at the start of a line
 * Headings
 * Headings

(Skip level 1; it's used for the page name.) 

Level 6
No indent
 * Indented paragraph or line
 * Indented paragraph or line
 * One indent
 * Two indents

(note space at start, remove quotation marks) Color Text Color Text
 * Bulleted list
 * Bulleted list
 * One
 * Two
 * Two point one
 * Three
 * Numbered list
 * Numbered list
 * Numbered list
 * 1) One
 * 2) Two
 * 3) Two point one
 * 4) Three
 * Mixed list
 * Mixed list
 * Mixed list
 * bulleted item
 * numbered item 1
 * indented item a
 * indented item b
 * numbered item 2
 * Preformatted text with working links
 * Preformatted text with working links
 * Preformatted text with working links
 * Preformatted text that shows underlying wikitext
 * Preformatted text that shows underlying wikitext
 * }

Further wikitext examples
For more complex content that is sometimes more easily managed with wikitext editing, see:


 * Help:Galleries
 * Help:Main page column tags
 * Help:Templates
 * Help:Signature
 * Help:Tables
 * Help:Magic words

Further help and feedback
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