Help:Editing/Basic

Start your sections with header lines:

Subsection

Sub-subsection

== New section ==

=== Subsection ===

==== Sub-subsection ====

Newline:

A single newline has no effect on the layout.

But an empty line starts a new paragraph.

(<p> disables this paragraphing until </p> or the end of the section)

A single
newline
has no
effect on the
layout.

But an empty line
starts a new paragraph.

without starting a new paragraph.

You can break lines<br>
without starting a new paragraph.

• Lists are easy to do:
  • start every line with a star
    • more stars means deeper levels
• A newline
• in a list

marks the end of the list.

• Of course
• you can
• start again.

* Lists are easy to do:
** start every line with a star
*** more stars means deeper levels
*A newline
*in a list  
marks the end of the list.
*Of course
*you can
*start again.

1. Numbered lists are also good
   1. very organized
   2. easy to follow
2. A newline
3. in a list

marks the end of the list.

1. New numbering starts
2. with 1.

# Numbered lists are also good
## very organized
## easy to follow
#A newline
#in a list  
marks the end of the list.
#New numbering starts
#with 1.

• You can even create mixed lists
  1. and nest them
     • like this

       can I mix definition list as well?

       yes

       how?

       it's easy as

       • a
       • b
       • c

* You can even create mixed lists
*# and nest them
*#* like this
*#*; can I mix definition list as well?
*#*: yes
*#*; how?
*#*: it's easy as
*#*:* a 
*#*:* b
*#*:* c

• You can also
  • break lines
    inside lists
    like this

* You can also
**break lines<br>inside lists<br>like this

Definition list 

list of definitions

item 

the item's definition

; Definition list : list
of definitions
; item : the item's definition

A colon indents a line or paragraph.

A manual newline starts a new paragraph.

This is primarily for displayed material, but is also used for discussion on Talk pages.

: A colon indents a line or paragraph.
A manual newline starts a new paragraph. 

IF a line of plain text starts with a space THEN
 it will be formatted exactly
   as typed;
 in a fixed-width font;
 lines won't wrap;
ENDIF

This is useful for:

• pasting preformatted text
• algorithm descriptions
• program source code
• ASCII art

WARNING If you make it wide, you force the whole page to be wide and hence less readable. Never start ordinary lines with spaces.

 IF a line of plain text starts with a space THEN
   it will be formatted exactly
     as typed;
   in a fixed-width font;
   lines won't wrap;
 ENDIF

<center>Centered text.</center>

and below.

Useful for a variety of separation needs, mainly within some kind of box, but rarely used within the text of an article.

A horizontal dividing line: above
----
and below.