Help:Formatting

Most text formatting in Wikia is done with wiki markup, so you don't have to learn or remember the intricate syntax of HTML. Also see Wikia's new WYSIWYG editor currently in development.

Bold and italics

Bold and italics are added by surrounding a word or phrase with multiple apostrophes ('):

• ''italics'' is rendered as italics. (2 apostrophes on either side)
• '''bold''' is rendered as bold. (3 apostrophes on either side)
• '''''bolded italics''''' is rendered as bolded italics. (2 + 3 = 5 apostrophes on either side)

Headings and subheadings

Headings and subheadings are an easy way to improve the organization of an article. If you can see two or more distinct topics being discussed, you can break up your article by inserting a heading for each section.

Headings can be created like this:

• 
  ==Top level heading== (2 equals signs)
• 
  ===Subheading=== (3 equals signs)
• 
  ====Another level down==== (4 equals signs)
• 
  =====Another level down===== (5 equals signs)

If an article has at least three headings, a table of contents (TOC) will be automatically generated. Try creating some headings in the sandbox and see the effect on the TOC.

Indenting

To indent text, place a colon (:) at the beginning of a line. The more colons you put, the further indented the text will be. A newline (pressing Enter or Return) marks the end of the indented paragraph.

For example:

This is aligned all the way to the left.
:This is indented slightly.
::This is indented more.

is shown as:

This is aligned all the way to the left.

This is indented slightly.

This is indented more.

Bullet points

To insert a bullet, use an asterisk (*). Similar to indentation, more asterisks in front of a paragraph means more indentation.

A brief example:

*First list item

*Second list item

**Sub-list item under second

*Isn't this fun?

Which is shown as:

• First list item
• Second list item
  • Sub-list item under second
• Isn't this fun?

Numbered lists

You can also create numbered lists. For this, use the number sign or hash symbol (#). Using more #s will affect the level of indenting.

Example:

#First item

#Second item

##Sub-item under second item

#Third item

Shows up as:

1. First item
2. Second item
   1. Sub-item under second item
3. Third item

Table of contents

Example of a Table of Contents from Pro Wrestling Wiki.

As described above, any article with more than three headings will automatically generate a Table of Contents just before the first heading. The Table of Contents can be manually positioned using the following code:

  __TOC__  

To align a Table of Contents to the right, you could place it in a right-aligned table, such as:

 {| style="margin-right: auto;"
  |__TOC__
  |}

In order to force a TOC on a page with less than 3 headings, put __TOC__ somewhere on the page.