Help:Wikitext

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

It's not necessary to know wikitext in order to edit at Wikia. You can use the Visual mode in the standard editor, or the new VisualEditor (where enabled), to avoid it. However, users who learn it find that they have more control over their editing experience. It can be used in "source" mode in either editor.

Below is a cheat sheet for basic wikitext that you can use while editing. Many of the options listed below have shortcut buttons in the visual editors' toolbars. For more complex content that is sometimes more easily managed with wikitext editing, see:
 * Help:Wikitext/more examples
 * Help:Wikitext/table examples
 * Help:Galleries, Slideshows, and Sliders/wikitext
 * Help:Templates
 * Help:Infobox
 * Help:Tables

{| style="width:100%; border:2px #a3b1bf solid; text-align:left;" Wikitext Cheatsheet italic bold bold & italic
 * colspan="3" style="background:#cee0f2; color:#000; text-align:center;" |
 * colspan="3" style="background:#cee0f2; color:#000; text-align:center;" |
 * style="background:#cee0f2; color:#000; padding:0.3em; text-align:center; width: 25%;"|Description
 * style="background:#cee0f2; color:#000; padding:0.3em; text-align:center;"|You type
 * style="background:#cee0f2; color:#000; padding:0.3em; text-align:center; width: 25%;"|You get
 * colspan="3" style="background:#E6F2FF; color:#000; padding: 0.2em; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; text-align:center;" | Applies anywhere
 * Italicise text
 * colspan="3" style="background:#E6F2FF; color:#000; padding: 0.2em; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; text-align:center;" | Applies anywhere
 * Italicise text
 * Italicise text
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Bold text
 * Bold text
 * Bold text
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Bold and italic
 * Bold and italic
 * Bold and italic
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Internal link
 * Internal link
 * Internal link

(within a local wiki)

Help:Contents

Displayed text

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 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Redirect to another page
 * Redirect to another page
 * Redirect to another page
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * External link
 * External link
 * External link

(to other websites)



displayed text

http://www.example.org Sign your posts
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|

on talk pages Your username ,

28 August 2024 (UTC)
 * colspan="3" style="background:#E6F2FF; color:#000; padding: 0.2em; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; text-align:center;" | Applies only at the beginning of the line
 * Headings
 * Headings
 * Headings

A Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article.

=Level 1=

Level 6

 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Bulleted list
 * Bulleted list
 * Bulleted list


 * One
 * Two
 * Two point one
 * Three
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Numbered list
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Numbered list
 * Numbered list

Images
 * One
 * Two
 * 1) Two point one
 * 2) Three
 * colspan="3" style="background:#cee0f2; color:#000; text-align:center;" |
 * colspan="3" style="background:#cee0f2; color:#000; text-align:center;" |
 * colspan="3" style="background:#cee0f2; color:#000; text-align:center;" |
 * style="background:#cee0f2; color:#000; padding:0.3em; text-align:center; width: 25%;"|Description
 * style="background:#cee0f2; padding:0.3em; text-align:center;"|You type
 * style="background:#cee0f2; color:#000; padding:0.3em; text-align:center; width: 25%;"|You get
 * Image
 * Image
 * Image
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Sized image
 * Sized image
 * Sized image
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Thumbnail image
 * Thumbnail image
 * Thumbnail image
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Bordered image
 * Bordered image
 * Bordered image
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Aligned image
 * Aligned image
 * Aligned image
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Linked image
 * Linked image
 * Linked image
 * }

Further Help & Feedback
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