This page contains the most frequently used wiki markup, briefly. Follow the links in each section to learn more.
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]] (to create an anchor)
[[#anchor | link text]] (to refer to an anchor)
[[PageName#anchor | link text]] (to refer to an anchor in another page)
See also WikiWord on how to enable WikiWord links.
WikiGroup links
See Links and Categories
[[GroupName/]] or [[Group name/]]
[[GroupName.]]
[[GroupName/PageName]] or [[GroupName/page name]]
[[(GroupName.)page name]]
[[~Author Name]]
[[!Category Name]]
InterMap links
See InterMap
[[Path:/path/local_document.html]]
[[Wikipedia:WikiWikiWeb]]
Email links
mailto:someone@example.com
[[(mailto:)someone@example.com]]
[[mailto:someone@example.com | display text]]
[[display text -> mailto:someone@example.com]]
Upload links
Attach:file.odt
[[(Attach:)file.odt]]
[[Attach:file.odt | alternative text ]]
[[Attach:file with spaces.pdf]]
[[Attach:Groupname./file with spaces.pdf]]
Images
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"
Attach:Groupname.Pagename/image.gif"image on another page"
%lfloat% Attach:image.gif | Caption %% (could be %rfloat%, %center%, %rframe%, %lframe% )
%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
Lists
See List Styles, Wiki styles and Cookbook:Outline lists
* unordered list
** deeper list
# ordered list
# %item value=#% arbitrary start number
# %decimal%, %roman%, %ROMAN%, %alpha%, %ALPHA%
:term:definition
Also
Q: start a question paragraph
A: start an answer paragraph
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 Wiki styles and Page directives
>>wikistyle<<
(:div attr:)
(:divend:)
>><<
Text markup
Character format
''emphasized''
'''strong'''
'''''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 Page directives
(:redirect PageName:)
(:(no)spacewikiwords:)
(:(no)linkwikiwords:)
(:(no)linebreaks:)
(:nl:) insert newline in the *markup* only if one isn't present. The purpose of (:nl:) is to be able to write things like:
(:include Page1:)(:nl:)(:include Page2:)
which guarantees that the first line of Page2 is treated as a separate line from the last line of Page1, but without inadvertently generating a blank line between them.
Display
See Page directives Group headers
(:noheader:), (:nofooter:)
(:notitle:)
(:noleft:), (:noright:)
(:nogroupheader:), (:nogroupfooter:)
(:noaction:)
Metadata
See Page directives, Comment markup, Page variables
(:title text:)
(:keywords word, ...:)
(:description text:)
(:comment text:)
{Group/PageName$:Var} includes from (:name:text:)
Include
See Include other pages, Page text variables
(:include PageName:)
(:include PageName#start#end lines=n paras=n:)
(:include Page1 Page2 Page3:)
{Group/PageName$:Var} includes from (:name:text:)
Conditional markup
(:if (!) cond param:)...(:ifend:)
(:if (!) cond param:)...(:else:)...(:ifend:)
(:if (!) cond param:)...(:elseif (!) cond param:)...(:ifend:)
Pagelists
See Page lists
(:searchbox label=label order=-time:)
(:searchresults incl -excl group=abc fmt=def:)
(:pagelist incl -excl group=abc fmt=def:)
Other directives
See Page directives
(:markup:)...(:markupend:)
(:markup class=horiz:)...(:markupend:)
(:markup caption='...':)...(:markupend:)
(:messages:)
Forms
See Forms
(:input form method=get action=url enctype=multipart/form-data:)
(:input default name=xyz value="abc":)
(: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="val1" label="Value 1":)
(:input select name=xyz value="val2" label="Value 2":)
(:input end:)
See also PmWiki Edit forms.
Wiki trails
See Wiki trails
<<|[[TrailPage]]|>>
<|[[TrailPage]]|>
^|[[TrailPage]]|^
Page variables
See Page variables, Page text variables, Page lists
{$variable}
{pagename$variable}
(:name:description:) sets a page text variable
Expressions
{(function args)}
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