Everything you wanted to know about wiki markup but were afraid to ask.

Table of contents

• Links
  • To external urls
  • To internal pages and more
• Images
  • as images
  • as links
• Start-of-line markup
  • Lists
  • Paragraph blocks
  • Division blocks
• Text
  • Character markup
  • Posting markup
• Tables
  • Plain tables
  • Structured tables
• Directives
  • Page directives
  • Include other pages
  • Conditional markup
  • Page lists
  • Other directives
• Forms
  • Forms
  • Edit Forms
• WikiTrails
• Page variables

Links

See Links

External links

http://example.com

[[http://example.com]]

[[http://example.com | link text]]

[[link text -> http://example.com]]

Page links

[[PageName]]

[[page name]]

[[page (name)]]

[[PageName | link text]]

[[PageName | + ]] (titled link)

[[PageName | # ]] (anonymous numerical reference link)

[[link text -> PageName]]

[[#anchor]]

[[#anchor | link text]]

[[PageName#anchor | link text]]

Wiki page links

See WikiWord and WikiGroup

WikiWord

`NonWikiWord

Group/PageName

Group.PageName

[[GroupName/]]

[[GroupName.]]

Special group links

See Links and Categories

[[~Author Name]]

[[!Category Name]]

Intermap links

See InterMap

[[Path:/path/local_document.html]]

[[Wikipedia:WikiWikiWeb]]

Upload links

See Uploads

[[Attach:file with spaces.doc]]

[[Attach:Groupname/file with spaces.doc]]

Images

See Images and Uploads

Images as Images

http://example.com/image.gif

http://example.com/image.gif"alt text"

Attach:image.gif"My image"

Attach:Groupname/image.gif"image in another group"

%lfloat% Attach:image.gif

%rfloat% Attach:image.gif

%center% Attach:image.gif

%rframe% Attach:image.gif | Caption

%lframe% Attach:image.gif | Caption

%width=200px% Attach:image.gif

%thumb% Attach:image.gif

Images as links

[[Attach:image.gif]]

[[(Attach:)image.gif]]

[[PageName | Attach:image.gif"alt text"]]

[[http://example.com/ | Attach:image.gif"alt text"]]

%rframe thumb% [[Attach:image.gif | Attach:image.gif"alt text"]] | Caption

Start-of-line markup

See Text Formatting Rules

Lists

See WikiStyles and Cookbook:OutlineLists

* unordered list

** deeper list

# ordered list

# %item value=#% arbitrary start number

:# %decimal%, %roman%, %ROMAN%, %alpha%, %ALPHA%

:term:definition

Headings

!! Heading

!!! Deeper heading

Paragraph blocks

-> indented text

-< hanging indent

<space> preformatted text

[@...@] preformatted block

---- (horizontal rule)

blank line is vertical space

\ at end of line joins next line

\\ at end of line produces a line break

\\\ at the end of a line produces a blank line, even within a list item

[[<<]] produces a line break that clears floating content

Division blocks

See WikiStyles and PageDirectives

>>wikistyle<<

(:div attr:)

(:divend:), >><<

Text markup

See Text Formatting Rules

Character format

''emphasized'' (italic)

'''strong''' (bold)

'''''strong emphasis'''''

@@monospaced@@

[-small-], [--smaller--]

[+big+], [++bigger++]

'-small-', '+big+'

'^superscript^', '_subscript_'

{+inserted+} (underscore)

{-deleted-} (strikethrough)

[@escaped code@]

[=escaped text=]

Posting markup

~~~ (author's signature)

~~~~ (author's signature and date)

(:encrypt phrase:) -- replaced with encrypted form of phrase

Tables

Plain rows and columns of text

See Tables

||table attributes

||!table caption!||

||left aligned || centered || right aligned||

||!column heading||

||spanned columns ||||||

Structured tables

See Table directives

(:table attr:)

(:cellnr attr:)

(:cell attr:)

(:tableend:)

Directives

Page directives

See PageDirectives

(:redirect PageName:)

(:(no)spacewikiwords:)

(:(no)linkwikiwords:)

(:(no)linebreaks:)

(:nl:)

Display

See Page Directives Group Headers

(:noheader:), (:nofooter:)

(:notitle:)

(:noleft:), (:noright:)

(:nogroupheader:), (:nogroupfooter:)

(:noaction:)

Metadata

See Page Directives CommentMarkup?

(:title text:)

(:keywords word, ...:)

(:description text:)

(:comment text:)

Include

See Include Other Pages

(:include PageName:)

(:include PageName #start#end lines=n paras=n:)

(:include Page1 Page2 Page3:)

Conditional markup

See Conditional markup
:(:if (!)cond param:)...(:ifend:):

Pagelists

See PageLists

(:searchbox group=Group size=size label=label target=Group.Page fmt=def list=ghi order=jkl:)

(:searchresults incl -excl group=abc fmt=def list=ghi order=jkl:)

(:pagelist incl -excl group=abc fmt=def list=ghi order=jkl:)

Other directives

(:attachlist:)

(:markup:) [=...=]

(:markup:)...(:markupend:)

(:markup class=horiz:)...(:markupend:)

(:markup caption='...':)...(:markupend:)

Forms

See Cookbook:Input

(:input form method=get action=url enctype=multipart/form-data:)

(:input end:)

(:input text name=first value="Bob" size=20:)

(:input submit name=post value="Go" accesskey=g:)

(:input reset:)

(:input hidden name=action value=edit:)

(:input radio name=xyz value="abc" checked=1:)

(:input checkbox name=xyz value="abc" checked=1:)

(:input password name=authpw:)

(:input file name=upload:)

(:input image name=xyz src="http:..." alt="Alt Text":)

(:input select name=xyz value="abc" label="Alphabet":)

(:input default name=xyz value="abc":)

Edit forms

See Cookbook:Input#pageeditcontrols

(:messages:)

(:input e_form:)

(:e_guibuttons:)

(:e_preview:)

(:input e_textarea rows=24 cols=60:)

(:input e_author value={$Author} size=40:)

(:input e_changesummary value="Summary" size=60:)

(:input e_savebutton value=$[Save]:)

(:input e_saveeditbutton value=$[Save and edit]:)

(:input e_previewbutton value=$[Preview]:)

(:input e_resetbutton value=$[Reset]:)

Wiki trails

See WikiTrails

<<|TrailPage|>>

<|TrailPage|>

^|TrailPage|^

Page variables

See Page Variables

{$variable}

{pagename$variable}

For example:

{$Group}

{$Name}

{$LastModifiedBy}

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