On the editing page of every entry, there are a set of quicktags that allow you to format text.



If you play with these a little you'll come to understand what Wiki code looks like. Generally you format text by surrounding it with certain repeating symbols.

Underline: 3 "equals" signs (=) on either side of the text. ===like this===
Bold: 2 underscores (_) on either side of the text. __like this__
Italic: 2 single quotes (') on either side of the text. ''like this''
Centered: 2 colons (:) on either side of the text. ::like this::
Strike-Through: 2 hyphens (-) on either side of the text. --like this--


Some of the formatting codes I find particularly useful are the title bar code, which is a minus sign (-) and an equals sign (=), then text, then the equals and minus in reverse order. It looks like this:

-=Here is a title bar.=-


Also, the box feature is handy. You can do this by putting one carat (Shift-6) on either side of your text, like this:

^I'm in a box!^



The other formatting trick to know is how to work with tables in Wiki code.

A table starts with two vertical bars. Each new line creates a new row in the table, and cells within a row are divided by a single bar. If you skip single bars in a particular row, that cell spans the remaining length of the table; if you put just a space between two single bars, the cell will be empty. The table is then closed with two more bars. So if the code looks like this:



Then you get this:

table cell 1	table cell 2	table cell 3
table cell 4	table cell 5
table cell 6

You can play with the other buttons, too, to see what they do. See Making A Wiki Link and Adding Images for information specific to those two formatting methods.