Markup Reference

'Markup' is a simple way to create web page content. Starting with plain text, you can add styles like bold or italic and create full featured pages with pictures and links to other pages.

Basic rules

Any text you type in the edit window and save will show on your page.

Leave a blank line (like that above) to start a new paragraph. Line breaks are ignored and all text within a block is treated as a paragraph.

You can add style and features to your page using markups. All markups are denoted by square brackets [ ] with a special character immediately inside these. For example [/show in italics/] will show as show in italics. Some 'special' markups use double square braclets [[ ]].

Markup works between start and end points - so remember to close the brackets or the markup will continue to the end of your document!

Inline markups

New lines	render as
Back to back square brackets [] start a new line. Otherwise text just continues...	Back to back square brackets start a new line. Otherwise text just continues...
Headings	render as
[~Heading~] [~~Sub-heading~~] the ~ character is usually shift # on your keyboard a heading in the first line of a blog entry is used in the 'Recent titled post' listing	Heading Sub-heading
Text formatting	render as
[bold] [/italic/] [+big+] [-small-] super[^script^]	bold italic big small super^script
Highlighting	render as
[!this phrase is highlighted!] use to highlight key words/phrases in your page or draw attention to important items	this phrase is highlighted
Entities	render as
['copy'] ['reg'] ['euro'] ['egrave'] ['aacute'] use to show special characters (html entities) see Entities	© ® € è á

Special markups

Internal page links	render as
[[Welcome]] use page title in double square brackets this will link to any other page on this site	Welcome
[[Welcome\|Home]] you can give a page an 'alias' name add the new name after a \| character the \| character is usually shift \ on your keyboard	Home
External page links	render as
[[link:http://www.bbc.co.uk]] [[link:http://www.bbc.co.uk\|The BBC]] note use of optional \| to add a site name the \| character is usually shift \ on your keyboard	http://www.bbc.co.uk The BBC
Pictures	render as
[[snap:02 04 16 immature male Ero aphana ]] use [[picture:title]] for full width picture you can also use [[thumb:title]] to show 'thumbnail' or small views of a picture you can use [[credit:title]] or [[location:title]] to show the picture credit or location information You can use [[snap:title\|right]] or [[snap:title\|left]] to 'float' a picture within paragraph text

Lists

Simple lists	render as
[_ Item 1 Item 2 ...etc _] underscore _ is usually shift - on your keyboard	Item 1 Item 2 ...etc
Bulleted lists	render as
[. Item 1 Item 2 ...etc .]	Item 1 Item 2 ...etc
Numbered lists	render as
[# Item 1 Item 2 ...etc #]	Item 1 Item 2 ...etc

Page layout

Centring	render as
[%this text is centred%] [% [[thumb:02 04 16 immature male Ero aphana ]] %] you can centre text, pictures or any other object	this text is centred
Block quotes	render as
[" this is a block quote, with right and left indents "]	this is a block quote, with right and left indents

Other markups

Escape/ignore markup	render as
{{markup in [/this/] section [will] be ignored}} use double curly brackets if you need to prevent markup rendering	markup in [/this/] section [will] be ignored