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
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
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
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
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
(: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
(: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
{*$variable}
{*$:variable}
Page list templates special variables
{=$variable}, {<$variable}, {>$variable},
{=$:variable}, {<$:variable}, {>$:variable},
Expressions
{(function args)}
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