This page contains examples of UseModWiki's formatting rules. (See Text Formatting Rules for explanations and samples of each rule.)

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

Plain Text:

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. (This also means that special sequences like < do not work in wiki.)

Do not indent paragraphs, or your text might look like this.

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

Page, URL, Image, and InterWiki Links:

You can link to a page by surrounding its title with two pairs of square brackets. For instance, SDxWiki and Text Formatting Examples 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: http://www.usemod.com/wiki.gif

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

InterWiki link:

Sample uses of the "" delimiter:

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

Bold and Italic Text:

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

Sample bold, italic, and <i>bold+italic</i>.

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.

Lists:

• Text for a bulleted list item.
  • Text for second-level list.
    • Text for third level, etc.

1. Text for a numbered list item.
2. Text for second-level list. 3. Text for third level, etc.

Indented Text:

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)

Preformatted Text

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.

Miscellaneous rules:

• [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.