Wikka Formatting Guide

Once you have read through this, test your formatting skills in the SandBox.

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1. Text Formatting

2. Headers

Use between six = (for the biggest header) and two = (for the smallest header) on both sides of a text to render it as a header.

3. Horizontal separator

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4. Forced line break

5. Lists and indents

You can indent text using a ~, a tab or 2 spaces.




To create bulleted/ordered lists, use the following markup (you can always use 4 spaces instead of a ~):

Bulleted lists



Numbered lists



Ordered lists using uppercase characters



Ordered lists using lowercase characters



Ordered lists using roman numerals



Ordered lists using lowercase roman numerals

6. Inline comments

To format some text as an inline comment, use an indent ( ~, a tab or 2 spaces) followed by a &.

7. Images

To place images on a Wiki page, you can use the image action.



Links can be external, or internal Wiki links. You don't need to enter a link at all, and in that case just an image will be inserted. You can use the optional classes left and right to float images left and right. You don't need to use all those attributes, only url is required while alt is recommended for accessibility.

8. Links

To create a link to a wiki page you can use any of the following options:

1. type a WikiName:
   
   FormattingRules
   FormattingRules
   
   
2. add a forced link surrounding the page name by [[ and ]] (everything after the first space will be shown as description):
   
   [[SandBox Test your formatting skills]]
   Test your formatting skills
   
   [[SandBox 沙箱]]
   沙箱
   
   
3. add an image with a link (see instructions above).

To link to external pages, you can do any of the following:

1. type a URL inside the page:
   
   http://www.example.com
   http://www.example.com∞
   
   
2. add a forced link surrounding the URL by [[ and ]] (everything after the first space will be shown as description):
   
   [[http://example.com/jenna/ Jenna's Home Page]]
   Jenna's Home Page∞
   
   [[mail@example.com Write me!]]
   Write me!∞
   
   
3. add an image with a link (see instructions above);
   
   
4. add an interwiki link (browse the list of available interwiki tags):
   
   WikiPedia:WikkaWiki
   WikkaWiki∞
   
   Google:CSS
   CSS∞
   
   Thesaurus:Happy
   Happy∞
   
   

9. Tables

To create a table, you can use the table action.

Note that ### must be used to indicate an empty cell.
Complex tables can also be created by embedding HTML code in a wiki page (see instructions below).

10. Colored Text

Colored text can be created using the color action:

You can also use hex values:

Alternatively, you can specify a foreground and background color using the fg and bg parameters (they accept both named and hex values):

11. Floats

To create a left floated box, use two < characters before and after the block.

Example:

Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler. Some more text as a filler.

To create a right floated box, use two > characters before and after the block.

Example:

Use ::c:: to clear floated blocks.

12. Code formatters

You can easily embed code blocks in a wiki page using a simple markup. Anything within a code block is displayed literally.
To create a generic code block you can use the following markup:

To create a code block with syntax highlighting, you need to specify a code formatter (see below for a list of available code formatters).

You can also specify an optional starting line number.

If you specify a filename, this will be used for downloading the code.

List of available code formatters

Language	Formatter	Language	Formatter	Language	Formatter
Actionscript	actionscript	ABAP	abap	ADA	ada
Apache Log	apache	AppleScript	applescript	ASM	asm
ASP	asp	AutoIT	autoit	Bash	bash
BlitzBasic	blitzbasic	Basic4GL	basic4gl	bnf	bnf
C	c	C for Macs	c_mac	C#	csharp
C++	cpp	C++ (+QT)	cpp-qt	CAD DCL	caddcl
CadLisp	cadlisp	CFDG	cfdg	ColdFusion	cfm
CSS	css	D	d	Delphi	delphi
Diff-Output	diff	DIV	div	DOS	dos
Dot	dot	Eiffel	eiffel	Fortran	fortran
FreeBasic	freebasic	FOURJ's Genero 4GL	genero	GML	gml
Groovy	groovy	Haskell	haskell	HTML	html4strict
INI	ini	Inno Script	inno	Io	io
Java 5	java5	Java	java	Javascript	javascript
LaTeX	latex	Lisp	lisp	Lua	lua
Matlab	matlab	mIRC Scripting	mirc	Microchip Assembler	mpasm
Microsoft Registry	reg	Motorola 68k Assembler	m68k	MySQL	mysql
NSIS	nsis	Objective C	objc	OpenOffice BASIC	oobas
Objective Caml	ocaml	Objective Caml (brief)	ocaml-brief	Oracle 8	oracle8
Pascal	pascal	Per (FOURJ's Genero 4GL)	per	Perl	perl
PHP	php	PHP (brief)	php-brief	PL/SQL	plsql
Python	phyton	Q(uick)BASIC	qbasic	robots.txt	robots
Ruby on Rails	rails	Ruby	ruby	SAS	sas
Scheme	scheme	sdlBasic	sdlbasic	Smarty	smarty
SQL	sql	TCL/iTCL	tcl	T-SQL	tsql
Text	text	thinBasic	thinbasic	Unoidl	idl
VB.NET	vbnet	VHDL	vhdl	Visual BASIC	vb
Visual Fox Pro	visualfoxpro	WinBatch	winbatch	XML	xml
X++	xpp	ZiLOG Z80 Assembler	z80

13. Mindmaps

Wikka has native support for FreeMind∞. There are two options for embedding a mindmap in a wiki page.

Option 1: Upload a FreeMind file to a webserver, and then place a link to it on a wikka page: No special formatting is necessary.

Option 2: Paste the FreeMind data directly into a wikka page:

• Open a FreeMind file with a text editor.
• Select all, and copy the data.
• Browse to your Wikka site and paste the Freemind data into a page.

14. Embedded HTML

You can easily paste HTML in a wiki page by wrapping it into two sets of doublequotes.


By default, some HTML tags are removed by the SafeHTML parser to protect against potentially dangerous code. The list of tags that are stripped can be found on the SafeHTML∞ page.

It is possible to allow all HTML tags to be used, see UsingHTML∞ for more information.

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