Feel free to use this page to experiment with the Text Formatting Rules. Just click the "Edit" link and make changes, click "Preview" or "Save" to check the result.
Note that the default content of this WikiSandbox is automatically restored every fifteen minutes.
Use the examples below as reference and starting point for your experiments.
Paragraphs and line breaks
Consecutive lines will be merged together as part of the same paragraph, so these four lines in markup will be reformatted in the page view.
One or more empty lines will start a new paragraph.
Two backslashes at the end of a line
force a line break.
Or use this markup:
to force a break.
Lists
- Bullet list
- Another item
- More asterisks produce sub-items
- etc.
- Numbered lists
- Another item
- more hashes produce sub-items
- List types
- can be mixed
- numbered list with unordered sub-list
Major Subheading
Minor Subheading
And More
Subheadings
Text Emphasis
To emphasize, enclose text in apostrophes (single-quote marks), not double-quotes:
Emphasize (italics),
strong (bold),
very strong (bold italics).
Links
Words in links are automatically capitalized to make the link target: wiki sandbox
Text after a pipe (|) is used as the link text: practice area
Endings become part of the link text: wiki sandboxes.
Parentheses hide parts of the link name: sandbox
Links to different groups:
Main.WikiSandbox shows group + name
WikiSandbox shows only name
Links to external site, bare url: http://google.com
With link text: Google
InterMap link: What's an Wikipedia:aardvark, anyway?
Preformatted text
Preformatted text is displayed using a monospace font and not generating linebreaks except where explicitly indicated in the markup.
Wiki markup is not processed in text escaped this way, and lines are not reformetted.
Inline use: This is not ''emphasised'' text.
Escape sequence
If you don't want Wiki markup to be processed but lines to be reformatted, use this markup.
Inline use: This is not ''emphasised'' text.
Horizontal line
Four or more dashes at the beginning of a line
produce a "horizontal rule"
Tables
Simple tables use double pipe characters to separate cells:
| cell 1 | cell 2 | cell 3 |
|---|---|---|
| cell 1 | cell 2 | cell 3 |
Character formatting
Monospaced text- Text with superscripts
- Text with subscripts
- deleted
strikethroughtext - inserted underline text
- big, bigger text
- small, smaller text
Test
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