Help:Formatting text/instructions

How you perform the act of formatting text depends largely on the editor you choose to use. Nevertheless, the effect is largely the same on the Source editor and VisualEditor — both of which have pictographic editing tools.

Formatting in wikitext via the Source editor is explained elsewhere.

Formatting with the Visual Editor
Once you click the edit button and enter the editor, you will see this toolbar on top of the page.

Text Styles
Highlight the text you wish to modify with your cursor, and then choose: For more options, click the drop-down menu and you will see the text formatting menu.
 * Bold button.png to make the text bold.
 * Italic button.png to make the text italic.
 * Underline button.png to underline the text.

From here you can get the remaining text-formatting selections:
 * Code to format  in-line with other text.
 * Strikethrough to make text with a line through it.
 * Superscript to make araised term or exponent.
 * Subscript to make alowered term.
 * Big to make a word or phrase appear in a larger font.
 * Small to make a word or phrase appear in a smaller font.
 * Remove will remove any text formatting and return it to plain text.

Heading Styles
Heading types may be selected from the  PARAGRAPH  menu as shown to the right.

Highlight the text that you want to style.
 * For major sections, choose Heading.
 * For sub-dividing a major section, choose one of the Sub-heading 1–4 items.
 * To present a block of text in a fixed-width font as-is (i.e., spaces and newlines will be preserved, templates will not be expanded, wikitext will not be rendered) choose Preformatted.
 * To present a block of text offset from the normal text flow, choose Block quote.
 * Please do not use Page title on normal wiki pages.

Formatting with the Source Editor
Once you click the edit button and enter the editor, you will see this toolbar on top of the page.

Text Styles
Highlight the text you wish to modify with your cursor, and then choose: For more options, click the  ADVANCED  drop-down menu and you will see the text formatting menu.
 * Bold button.png to make the text bold.
 * Italic button.png to make the text italic.

From here you can get the remaining text-formatting selections:
 * Big to make a word or phrase appear in a larger font.
 * Small to make a word or phrase appear in a smaller font.
 * Superscript (X ) to make araised term or exponent.
 * Subscript (X ) to make alowered term.
 * Code, Strikethrough, and Underline are not available as menu-driven functions in the Source editor. You may still use the HTML tags to achieve these effects.
 * There is no Remove function. Just edit the wikitext as required.

Heading Styles
Heading types may be selected from the Heading menu as shown to the right.


 * These are all the same as shown in the Heading Styles section above. Note that after you select one of these, you will see the wikitext applied to your highlighted text. Here are some examples:

Beyond the basics
As you can see from the above images, there are many more buttons than we've mentioned. You can perform all sorts of formatting, many of which have also been demonstrated on Help:Formatting text. Since formatting in Fandom's Visual editor is largely a matter of highlighting text and pushing one of the buttons, take some time to explore the interfaces. You'll easily learn how to perform formatting much more advanced than italics and bolding. The Source editor allows you to achieve the same results as the Visual editor, but requires a bit more knowledge of wikitext and HTML.

Further help and feedback
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