Formatting and Markup
Information on the standard WF syntax used throughout the site
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Many of the sections on the site allow you to add a little bit of spice to the text you're entering, so it's not quite as boring. We use a format based on BBCode, but with a few extra tweaks that are more similar to MediaWiki markup. In the future, more complete MediaWiki syntax may be available for certain parts of the site.

Conventional Formatting

Type...To get...
[b]This is bold[/b]
This is bold
[i]This is italics[/i]
This is italics
[u]This is underlining[/u]
This is underlining
[tt]This is monospaced[/tt]
This is monospaced
[sup]This is superscripted[/sup]
This is superscripted
[sub]This is subscripted[/sub]
This is subscripted
[code]This is code[/code]
This is code
[?]This is a spoiler[/?]
or
[spoiler]This is a spoiler[/spoiler]
This is a spoiler
[strike]This is struck out[/strike]
This is struck out
[s]This is struck out also[/s]
This is struck out also
[box]This is in a box[/box]
This is in a box
This is a tidy[br]linebreak
This is a tidy
linebreak
[[Search]]
[#1|Front Page]
[http://wikipedia.org/|Wikipedia]
Note: you can also use regular old BBcode [url=addr]text[/url] and [url]addr[/url] notation for hyperlinks.
[image:/pictures/cadre-demo-image.png]
cadre-demo-image.png
[image:/pictures/cadre-demo-image.png|border: 2px blue solid;box-shadow: 2px 2px 0px #808080;]
cadre-demo-image.png
[image:/pictures/cadre-demo-image.png|width: 50px; height: 50px;]
cadre-demo-image.png
Note: you can also use regular old BBcode [img]addr[/img] notation for images.
[h1]heading[/h1]

heading

[h2]heading[/h2]

heading

[h3]heading[/h3]

heading

[h4]heading[/h4]
heading
[h5]heading[/h5]
heading
* list item
  • list item
  • [table][tr][th]header[th]header 2[tr][td]body[td]body2[/table]
    headerheader 2
    bodybody2
    To add CSS to any table element, write [element:style], for example [td: background-color: red]. You can add other table properties by doing the same thing with a pipe, e.g. [td|colspan=2] to make a table cell that spans two columns.
    [quote]long block quote[/quote]
    long block quote
    [quote source]long block quote[/quote]
    quoting source:
    long block quote
    [caption]centred caption[/caption]
    centred caption
    [g gloss]word[/g]
    wordgloss
    [gb][g gloss]bolded words in glosses[/g][/gb]
    bolded words in glossesgloss
    [sc]small caps[/sc]
    small caps
    [ul][li]true list[/li][ul][li]with nesting[/ul][/ul]
    • true list
      • with nesting
    [ol][li]true list[/li][ol][li]with nesting[/ol][/ol]
    1. true list
      1. with nesting
    [ol:square][li]true list[ol:lower-alpha][li]with nesting[/ol][/ul]
    1. true list
      1. with nesting
    [h:yellow]highlight[/h]
    highlight
    [style:text-decoration: overline]arbitrary styling[/style]
    arbitrary styling
    [!i] block tag parsing
    [i] block tag parsing
    inline notes[plus]we have those[/plus]
    inline notes+we have those
    footnotes?[note]footnotes![/note]
    footnotes?1

    _________________________
    1. footnotes!

    Emoticons

    Tip: You can change the colour of your emoticons on the Settings page. Note these can only be used in forum posts, private messages, news posts, and comments.

    Don't want emoticons? Put [no_emote] anywhere in your post.

    Type...To get...
    >:O
    :)
    :(
    :p
    :O
    :o
    :D
    :F
    :C
    (:
    @_@
    :s
    :S
    :J
    :3
    :L
    D:
    :]
    :|
    :[
    :0
    :x
    :X
    8(
    8|
    :V
    ;)
    :-(
    :crumpets:

    Faces

    Type...To get...
    :hitler:
    :stalin:
    :fdr:
    :churchill:
    :augustus:
    :bonarlaw:
    :harper:
    :henryviii:
    :mao:
    :meiji:
    :muhammadpbuh:
    :jdavis:
    :nixon:
    :mozi:
    :mozart:
    :marx: