Guide: Formatting Guide

A page can be formatted in a number of different ways, using headers, lists, infoboxes, and image galleries. For ideas on how to implement each of these in the different editors, please see the Classic editor page, the Visual Editor page, and the wikitext page for source mode.

Headings

 * It is good to break up long articles into sections to help the reader stay oriented. This can be done using headings. The format options available are:

Lists
Lists can help to visually group related content and may be numbered or have bullet points.


 * Numbers:  A numbered list will look like this:
 * First item
 * Second item
 * Third item


 * Bullets:  A bullet list will look like this:
 * First item
 * Second item
 * Third item

Infoboxes

 * Infoboxes can be used to separate out important basic information that people may want to find quickly.

Image galleries

 * A gallery of images or a slideshow can be used to present similar types of images in a more compact format on the page.

Next pages

 * Learn how to link text
 * Learn how to create a new page
 * Learn how to modify text

Formatting Text
How you perform the act of formatting text depends largely on the editor you choose to use. Nevertheless, the process is largely the same the rich text editor and VisualEditor — both of which have pictographic editing tools.

Though some individual wikis have added these editing icons to source mode, formatting in source is generally quite different, requiring a knowledge of wikitext.

Beyond the basics
As you can see from the above images, there are many more buttons than we've mentioned. You can perform all sorts of formatting, much of which has been demonstrated above. Since formatting in Fandom's visual editors is largely a matter of highlighting text and pushing one of the buttons, take some time to explore the interfaces. You'll easily learn how to perform formatting much more advanced than italics and bolding.

Further information can be found here:


 * Fandom Community - How to Use Wikitext

Note: This was copied and modified with permission from the 40k Homebrew Wiki.