Help:Formatting

You can format your text using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in italic, you include it in two single quotes like  this 

Paragraphs
Mediawiki ignores normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can also start a newline with the HTML tag   .

HTML
Some HTML-Tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example  in LocalSettings.php. Switch off HTML completely with }}

{| of different sizes  ==level 1== 
 * Description
 * You type
 * You get
 * colspan="3" align="center" | applies anywhere
 * Italify text
 *  italic 
 * italic
 * Bold text
 *  bold 
 * bold
 * Bold and italic
 *  bold & italic 
 * bold & italic
 * Escape wiki markup
 *  no markup  
 * no markup
 * colspan="3" align="center" | only at the beginning of the line
 * Headings
 * Escape wiki markup
 *  no markup  </tt>
 * no markup
 * colspan="3" align="center" | only at the beginning of the line
 * Headings
 * colspan="3" align="center" | only at the beginning of the line
 * Headings
 * Headings

 ===level 2=== </tt>

 ====level 3==== </tt>

 =====level 4===== </tt>

Level 4
 </tt>
 * Horizontal rule
 * Horizontal rule

&#42; one &#42; two &#42; three &#35; one &#35; two &#35; three &#59;Definition &#58;item 1 &#58;item 2
 * Bullet list
 * Bullet list
 * one
 * two
 * three
 * Numbered list
 * Numbered list
 * Numbered list
 * 1) one
 * 2) two
 * 3) three
 * Definition list
 * Definition list
 * Definition list
 * Definition
 * item 1
 * item 2
 * item 2

a space at the beginning of the line creates preformatted text a space at the begin of the line creates preformatted text
 * Preformatted text
 * Preformatted text
 * }