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This page contains the most frequently used wiki markup, briefly. Follow the links in each section to learn more.

Links

See Links

External links

http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com"tool tip"]]
[[http://example.com | link text]]
[[link text -> http://example.com]]

Page links

[[PageName]]
[[page name]]
[[page (name)]]
[[PageName | link text]]
[[PageName | + ]] (titled link)
[[PageName | # ]] (anonymous numerical reference link)
[[PageName"tool tip"]]
[[link text -> PageName]]
[[#anchor]] (to create an anchor)
[[#anchor | link text]] (to refer to an anchor)
[[anchor | # ]] (anonymous numerical reference link)
[[PageName#anchor | link text]] (to refer to an anchor in another page)

See also WikiWord on how to enable WikiWord links.

WikiGroup links

See Links and Categories

[[GroupName/]] or [[Group name/]]
[[GroupName"tool tip"]]
[[GroupName.]]
[[GroupName/PageName]] or [[GroupName/page name]]
[[(GroupName.)page name]]
[[~Author Name]]
[[~Author Name | +]]
[[~Author Name | #]]
[[~Author Name | link text]]
[[~Author Name"tool tip"]]
[[!Category Name]]

InterMap links

See InterMap

[[Path:/path/local_document.html]]
[[Wikipedia:WikiWikiWeb]]

Email links

mailto:someone@example.com
[[(mailto:)someone@example.com]]
[[mailto:someone@example.com | display text]]
[[display text -> mailto:someone@example.com]]

Upload links

See Uploads and Images

Attach:file.odt
[[(Attach:)file.odt]]
[[Attach:file.odt | alternative text ]]
[[Attach:file with spaces.pdf]]
[[Attach:Groupname./file with spaces.pdf]]

Link Schemes?

In addition to http:, https:, mailto: PmWiki also supports:

ftp:
news:
gopher:
nap:
file:
tel:
geo:

Images

See Images and Uploads

Images as Images

http://example.com/image.gif
http://example.com/image.gif"alt text"
Attach:image.gif"My image"
Attach:Groupname./image.gif"image in another group"
Attach:Groupname.Pagename/image.gif"image on another page"
%lfloat% Attach:image.gif | Caption %% (could be %rfloat%, %center%, %rframe%, %lframe%, %frame% )
%width=200px% Attach:image.gif %%
%thumb% Attach:image.gif %%

Images as links

[[Attach:image.gif]]
[[(Attach:)image.gif]]
[[PageName | Attach:image.gif"alt text"]]
[[http://example.com/ | Attach:image.gif"alt text"]]
[[http://example.com/ | http://example.com/image.png"alt text"]] | Caption
%rframe thumb% [[Attach:image.gif | Attach:image.gif"alt text"]] | Caption

Start-of-line markup

See Text formatting rules

Lists

See List Styles, Wiki styles and Cookbook:Outline lists

* unordered list
** deeper list
# ordered list
# %item value=#% arbitrary start number
# %decimal%, %roman%, %ROMAN%, %alpha%, %ALPHA%
:term:definition

Also

Q: start a question paragraph
A: start an answer paragraph

Headings

!! Heading
!!! Deeper heading

Paragraph blocks

-> indented text
-< hanging indent
<space> preformatted text
[@...@] preformatted block
---- (horizontal rule)
blank line is vertical space
\ at end of line joins next line
\\ at end of line produces a line break
\\\ at the end of a line produces a blank line, even within a list item
[[<<]] produces a line break that clears floating content

Division blocks

See Block markup, Wiki styles and Page directives

>>wikistyle<<
>><<
(:div class="" style="":)
(:divend:)

Text markup

See Text formatting rules

Character format

''emphasized''
'''strong'''
'''''strong emphasis'''''
@@monospaced@@
[-small-], [--smaller--]
[+big+], [++bigger++]
'-small-', '+big+'
'^superscript^', '_subscript_'
{+inserted+} (underscore)
{-deleted-} (strikethrough)
[@escaped code@]
[=escaped text=]

Posting markup

~~~ (author's signature)
~~~~ (author's signature and date)
(:encrypt phrase:) -- replaced with encrypted form of phrase

Tables

Plain rows and columns of text

See Tables

||table attributes
||!table caption!||
||left aligned || centered || right aligned||
||!column heading||
||spanned columns ||||||

Structured tables

See Table directives

(:table attr:)
(:cellnr attr:)
(:cell attr:)
(:tableend:)

Directives

Page directives

See Page directives

(:redirect PageName:)
(:(no)spacewikiwords:)
(:(no)linkwikiwords:)
(:(no)linebreaks:)

Display

See Page directives Group headers

(:noheader:), (:nofooter:)
(:notitle:)
(:noleft:), (:noright:)
(:nogroupheader:), (:nogroupfooter:)
(:noaction:)

Metadata

See Page directives, Comment markup, Page variables

(:title text:)
(:keywords word, ...:)
(:description text:)
(:comment text:)
{Group/PageName$:variable} includes from (:variable:text:)

Include

See Include other pages, Page text variables

(:include PageName:)
(:include PageName#start#end lines=n paras=n:)
(:include Page1 Page2 Page3:)
{Group/PageName$:Var} includes from (:name:text:)
(:nl:) separate included text by conditional line break

Conditional markup

See Conditional markup

(:if (!) cond param:)...(:ifend:)
(:if (!) cond param:)...(:else:)...(:ifend:)
(:if (!) cond param:)...(:elseif (!) cond param:)...(:ifend:)

Pagelists

See Page lists

(:searchbox label=label order=-time:)
(:searchresults incl -excl group=abc fmt=def:)
(:pagelist incl -excl group=abc fmt=def:)

Other directives

See Page directives

(:PageDirectives#markup:) [=...=]
(:markup:)...(:markupend:)
(:markup class=horiz:)...(:markupend:)
(:markup caption='...':)...(:markupend:)
(:messages:)

Forms

See Forms

(:input form method=get action=url enctype=multipart/form-data:)
(:input default name=xyz value="abc":)
(:input text name=first value="Bob" size=20:)
(:input textarea name=xyz [=value=] rows=2 cols=80:)
(:input submit name=post value="Go" accesskey=g:)
(:input reset:)
(:input hidden name=action value=edit:)
(:input radio name=xyz value="abc" checked=1:)
(:input checkbox name=xyz value="abc" checked=1:)
(:input password name=authpw:)
(:input file name=upload:)
(:input image name=xyz src="http:..." alt="Alt Text":)
(:input select name=xyz value="val1" label="Value 1":)
(:input select name=xyz value="val2" label="Value 2":)
(:input end:)

See also PmWiki Edit forms.

Wiki trails

See Wiki trails

<<|[[TrailPage]]|>>
<|[[TrailPage]]|>
^|[[TrailPage]]|^

Page variables

See Page variables, Page text variables, Page lists

{$variable}, {pagename$variable}, {groupname.pagename$variable}
{$:variable}, {pagename$:variable}, {groupname.pagename$:variable}

Set a page text variable

(:name:description:)
:name:description
name:description

See special references

{*$variable}
{*$:variable}

Page list templates special variables

{=$variable}, {<$variable}, {>$variable},
{=$:variable}, {<$:variable}, {>$:variable},

Expressions

See Markup expressions

{(function args)}

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