TextFormattingExamples

To see how any page is formatted, just follow the link "Edit text of this page" at the bottom of the page.

This is a simple sample paragraph. Paragraphs can have line breaks internally. To separate paragraphs, use a blank line.

Here is another paragraph. Note that HTML-special characters like <, >, and & are not special in wiki. (But with recent versions of UseModWiki?, special sequences like &lt; work in wiki.)

   Do not indent paragraphs, or your

To create a horizontal line, type 4 or more minus/dash/hyphen (-) characters, like this:

You can link to a page by removing the spaces between two or more words, and starting each word with a capital letter. For instance, WikiName? and TextFormattingExamples are samples of page links.

Non-existing pages, like SmashingWordsTogetherExample?, will be displayed with a question-mark for a link. The question mark link indicates the page doesn't exist yet--follow the link to create and edit the page.

Inline image:

Inline link: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?SandBox

I prefer this inline link: [SandBox], It looks much cleaner and does the same job. WcGing?

Looks better I agree, but also makes a chance for an attack. Suppose I come along later and edit your link to [SandBox] would most users notice the difference? I am not saying don't use it, I suggest you notice the risk and then decide which you prefer

InterWiki? link: UseMod?:InterWiki?

Sample uses of the "" delimiter:

• Separating an inline link or InterWiki? link from adjacent punctuation such as in http://www.usemod.com/, UseMod?:UseModWiki?, or Wiki:TextFormattingRules.
• Plural forms of page links, like UnrealTournaments.

To mark text as bold or italic, you can use the HTML <b> and <i> tags. For example:

Sample bold, italic, and bold+italic.

UseModWiki? also implements the old "quote style" of text formatting, which is used on several wikis. Briefly:

Two single quotes are italics, three single quotes are bold, five single quotes are bold and italic.

• Text for a bulleted list item.
  • Text for second-level list.
    • Text for third level, etc.
    1. For some reason there is now a way to get a numbered list in deeper levels

1. Text for a numbered list item.
   1. Text for second-level list.
      1. Text for third level, etc.
      2. A second item of the same level get's an incremented number.
      • And we can shift back to bullets if we want to for some reason.

Text to be indented (quote-block)

Text indented more

Text indented to third level

Term

Definition (indented)

Term (indented)

Definition (indented two levels)

Term (indented twice)

Definition (indented to third level)

Pre-formatted section here.  No other link
  or format processing
is done on pre-formatted sections.
For instance, UseModWiki is not a link here.

and:

   This is the starting-spaces version of
   preformatted text.  Note that links like
   UseModWiki? still work.

• [nowiki] The nowiki tag allows one to avoid the wiki rules for a part of text. For instance: RecentChanges is not a link here because I used the nowiki tag.
• [backslash] Here is some text on multiple lines, treated as one line because of the backslashes.