User:Hans/Examples

Basic formatting

Section headings

Section headings are created as follows:

== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======

Note

Level 1 is reserved for the page title and should not be used.
The tables of contents is generated from the section headings.

Text formatting?

Examples of italic text, bold text and bold and italic text. See Typographical Guidelines for more information about when to use what.

Lists

Information

Bulleted lists are preferred whenever possible.

Bulleted lists

One
Two
- Two point one
Three

Numbered lists

One
Two
1. Two point one
Three

Definition lists

item 1: definition 1
item 2: definition 2-1; definition 2-2

Intending text

No indent (normal)

First indent

Further indents can cause problems and should not be used

Escape wiki markup

Sometimes it is useful to escape the wiki markup, for example if you want to show the markup of how to write '''bold text''' without the text turning bold. In such cases you can put <nowiki> and </nowiki> between the text that should remain unformatted.

Common elements

Code

In running text code is written like this.

The code in this box is inputted by the user
    Indented one tab
            Indented three tabs 
Note that the pipe character | has to be written as {{!}} in the markup

The user would read this in e.g. Konsole
It works in a similar way as the input box above

# The input and output box also support syntax highlighting
# Initialise common code
$preIP = dirname( __FILE__ );
require_once( "$preIP/includes/WebStart.php" );

Links

This is a link to a wiki page: Dolphin

A link with custom text

An external link

Images

More examples on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images.

A single centered image

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Thumbnail with caption

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