Wikka Formatting Guide
Note: Anything between 2 sets of double-quotes is not formatted.
Once you have read through this, test your formatting skills in the SandBox.
1. Text Formatting
**I'm bold**
I'm bold
I'm bold
//I'm italic text!//
I'm italic text!
I'm italic text!
And I'm __underlined__!
And I'm underlined!
And I'm underlined!
##monospace text##
monospace text
monospace text
''highlight text'' (using 2 single-quotes)
highlight text
highlight text
++Strike through text++
Strike through text
Strike through text
Press #%ANY KEY#%
Press ANY KEY
Press ANY KEY
@@Center text@@
Center text
2. Headers
Use between five = (for the biggest header) and two = (for the smallest header) on both sides of a text to render it as a header.
====== Really big header ======
Really big header
===== Rather big header =====
Rather big header
==== Medium header ====
Medium header
=== Not-so-big header ===
Not-so-big header
== Smallish header ==
Smallish header
3. Horizontal separator
----
4. Forced line break
---
5. Lists and indents
You can indent text using a ~, a tab or 4 spaces (which will auto-convert into a tab).
~This text is indented
~~This text is double-indented
This text is also indented
This text is indented
This text is also indentedThis text is double-indented
To create bulleted/ordered lists, use the following markup (you can always use 4 spaces instead of a ~):
Bulleted lists
~- Line one
~- Line two
- Line one
- Line two
Numbered lists
~1) Line one
~1) Line two
1) Line one
1) Line two
Ordered lists using uppercase characters
~A) Line one
~A) Line two
A) Line one
A) Line two
Ordered lists using lowercase characters
~a) Line one
~a) Line two
a) Line one
a) Line two
Ordered lists using roman numerals
~I) Line one
~I) Line two
I) Line one
I) Line two
Ordered lists using lowercase roman numerals
~i) Line one
~i) Line two
i) Line one
i) Line two
6. Inline comments
To format some text as an inline comment, use an indent ( ~, a tab or 4 spaces) followed by a &.
Example:
~& Comment
~~& Subcomment
~~~& Subsubcomment
- Comment
- Subcomment
- Subsubcomment
- Subcomment
7. Images
To place images on a Wiki page, you can use the image action.
Example:
{{image class="center" alt="DVD logo" title="An Image Link" url="images/dvdvideo.gif" link="RecentChanges"}}
Links can be external, or internal Wiki links. You don't need to enter a link at all, and in that case just an image will be inserted. You can use the optional classes left and right to float images left and right. You don't need to use all those attributes, only url is required while alt is recommended for accessibility.
8. Links
To create a link to a wiki page you can use any of the following options:
- type a WikiName:
FormattingRules
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- add a forced link surrounding the page name by [[ and ]] (everything after the first space will be shown as description):
[[SandBox Test your formatting skills]]
Test your formatting skills
[[SandBox 沙箱]]
沙箱
- add an image with a link (see instructions above).
To link to external pages, you can do any of the following:
- type a URL inside the page:
http://www.example.com
http://www.example.com∞
- add a forced link surrounding the URL by [[ and ]] (everything after the first space will be shown as description):
[[http://example.com/jenna/ Jenna's Home Page]]
Jenna's Home Page∞
[[mail@example.com Write me!]]
Write me!∞
- add an image with a link (see instructions above);
- add an interwiki link (browse the list of available interwiki tags):
WikiPedia:WikkaWiki
WikiPedia:WikkaWiki∞
Google:CSS
Google:CSS∞
Thesaurus:Happy
Thesaurus:Happy∞
9. Tables
To create a table, you can use the table action.
Example:
{{table columns="3" cellpadding="1" cells="BIG;GREEN;FROGS;yes;yes;no;no;no;###"}}
| BIG | GREEN | FROGS |
| yes | yes | no |
| no | no |
Note that ### must be used to indicate an empty cell.
Complex tables can also be created by embedding HTML code in a wiki page (see instructions below).
10. Colored Text
Colored text can be created using the color action:
Example:
{{color c="blue" text="This is a test."}}
This is a test.
This is a test.
You can also use hex values:
Example:
{{color hex="#DD0000" text="This is another test."}}
This is another test.
This is another test.
Alternatively, you can specify a foreground and background color using the fg and bg parameters (they accept both named and hex values):
Examples:
{{color fg="#FF0000" bg="#000000" text="This is colored text on colored background"}}
This is colored text on colored background
This is colored text on colored background
{{color fg="lightgreen" bg="black" text="This is colored text on colored background"}}
This is colored text on colored background
This is colored text on colored background
11. Floats
To create a left floated box, use two < characters before and after the block.
Example:
<<Some text in a left-floated box hanging around<< Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler.
Some text in a left-floated box hanging around
Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler.Example:
>>Some text in a right-floated box hanging around>> Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler.
Some text in a right-floated box hanging around
Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler.12. Code formatters
You can easily embed code blocks in a wiki page using a simple markup. Anything within a code block is displayed literally.
To create a generic code block you can use the following markup:
%% This is a code block %%.
This is a code block
To create a code block with syntax highlighting, you need to specify a code formatter (see below for a list of available code formatters).
%%(php)
<?php
echo "Hello, World!";
?>
%%
<?php
echo "Hello, World!";
?>
%%
You can also specify an optional starting line number.
%%(php;15)
<?php
echo "Hello, World!";
?>
%%
<?php
echo "Hello, World!";
?>
%%
- <?php
- echo "Hello, World!";
- ?>
If you specify a filename, this will be used for downloading the code.
%%(php;15;test.php)
<?php
echo "Hello, World!";
?>
%%
<?php
echo "Hello, World!";
?>
%%
test.php (line 15)
- <?php
- echo "Hello, World!";
- ?>
List of available code formatters:
| LANGUAGE | FORMATTER | LANGUAGE | FORMATTER | LANGUAGE | FORMATTER |
| Actionscript | actionscript | ADA | ada | Apache Log | apache |
| AppleScript | applescript | ASM | asm | ASP | asp |
| AutoIT | autoit | Bash | bash | BlitzBasic | blitzbasic |
| C | c | C for Macs | c_mac | c# | csharp |
| C++ | cpp | CAD DCL | caddcl | CadLisp | cadlisp |
| CFDG | cfdg | ColdFusion | cfm | CSS | css |
| D | d | Delphi | delphi | Diff-Output | diff |
| DIV | div | DOS | dos | Eiffel | eiffel |
| Fortran | fortran | FreeBasic | freebasic | GML | gml |
| Groovy | groovy | HTML | html4strict | INI | ini |
| Inno Script | inno | Java 5 | java5 | Java | java |
| Javascript | javascript | Lisp | lisp | Lua | lua |
| Matlab | matlab | Microchip Assembler | mpasm | Microsoft Registry | reg |
| MySQL | mysql | NSIS | nsis | Objective C | objc |
| OpenOffice BASIC | oobas | Objective Caml | ocaml | Objective Caml (brief) | ocaml-brief |
| Oracle 8 | oracle8 | Pascal | pascal | Perl | perl |
| PHP | php | PHP (brief) | php-brief | Python | phyton |
| Q(uick)BASIC | qbasic | robots.txt | robots | Ruby | ruby |
| SAS | sas | Scheme | scheme | sdlBasic | sdlbasic |
| Smarty | smarty | SQL | sql | TCL/iTCL | tcl |
| T-SQL | tsql | Text | text | VB.NET | vbnet |
| VHDL | vhdl | Visual BASIC | vb | Visual Fox Pro | visualfoxpro |
| WinBatch | winbatch | XML | xml |
13. Mindmaps
Wikka has native support for mindmaps∞. There are two options for embedding a mindmap in a wiki page.
Option 1: Upload a FreeMind file to a webserver, and then place a link to it on a wikka page:
http://yourdomain.com/freemind/freemind.mm
No special formatting is necessary.
Option 2: Paste the FreeMind data directly into a wikka page:
- Open a FreeMind file with a text editor.
- Select all, and copy the data.
- Browse to your Wikka site and paste the Freemind data into a page.
14. Embedded HTML
You can easily paste HTML in a wiki page by wrapping it into two sets of doublequotes.
""[html code]""
Examples:
""y = x<sup>n+1</sup>""
y = xn+1
y = xn+1
""<acronym title="Cascade Style Sheet">CSS</acronym>""
CSS
CSS
By default, some HTML tags are removed by the SafeHTML parser to protect against potentially dangerous code. The list of tags that are stripped can be found on the Wikka:SafeHTML∞ page.
It is possible to allow all HTML tags to be used, see Wikka:UsingHTML∞ for more information.
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