You can use Wiki Markup for:
- course description
- quiz description
Wiki Markup is an effective way to make a description more engaging and comprehensive. On this page you will find most useful markup syntax:
For a complete description of wiki markup in Confluence, please, refer to Confluence Wiki Markup in Confluence documentation.
Text Effects
You can use bold, italics and strikethrough text.
| What you'll get | What you need to type |
|---|
| Text in bold | *Text in bold* |
| Text in italics | _Text in italics_ |
Strikethrough text | -Strikethrough text- |
look ma, red text! | {color:red}look ma, red text!{color} |
Headings
To format a line as a heading, type "hn." at the start of your line, where n can be a number from 1 to 6.
| What you'll get | What you need to type |
|---|
Biggest heading | h1. Biggest heading
|
Big heading | h3. Big heading
|
Small heading | h5. Small heading
|
Images
You can display images from attached files or remote sources.
| What you'll get | What you need to type |
|---|
An image from a remote source is displayed on the page. Uses a fully qualified URL. | !http://www.host.com/image.gif! |
An image file attached to a different page is displayed. | !pageTitle^image.gif! |
| The image is displayed as a thumbnail on the page (only works with images that are attached to the page). Users can click on the thumbnail to see the full-sized image. Thumbnails must be enabled by the site administrator for this to work. | !image.jpg|thumbnail! |
Links
You can provide links to external pages on the web or to a page in the same Confluence instance.
| What you'll get | What you need to type |
|---|
| Link to an external source | [sometext|http://your-url.com] |
| Link to a Confluence page | [pagetitle] |
Lists
You can use numbered and bulleted lists with as many levels as you want. If a list is followed by some text, it may be a good idea to add a blank line after it.
| List type | What you'll get | What you need to type |
|---|
| Numbered list | anumberedlist
| # a
# numbered
# list
|
| Numbered nested list | - Here's a sentence.
- This is a sub-list point.
- Third list level.
- Another point at the third level.
- And a second sub-list point.
- Here's another sentence.
| # Here's a sentence.
## This is a sub-list point.
### Third list level.
### Another point at the third level.
## And a second sub-list point.
# Here's another sentence.
|
| Bulleted list | | * a
* bulleted
* list
|
| Bulleted nested list | | * some
* bullet
** indented
** bullets
* points
|
Tables
Use double bars for a table heading row.
What you need to type:
||heading 1||heading 2||heading 3||
|cell A1|cell A2|cell A3|
|cell B1|cell B2|cell B3|
|
What you'll get:
heading 1 | heading 2 | heading 3 |
|---|
cell A1 | cell A2 | cell A3 |
cell B1 | cell B2 | cell B3 |
You can also use a vertical header.
What you need to type:
||heading 1|col A1|col A2|col A3|
||heading 2|col B1|col B2|col B3|
What you'll get:
heading 1 | col A1 | col A2 | col A3 |
|---|
heading 2 | col B1 | col B2 | col B3 |
|---|
Quoting
There're two ways of quoting text:
- by typing
bq. before the quoted text - by using the
{quote} macro.
The former is better for short quotations and the latter is preferable for lengthy ones.
| What you'll get | What you need to type |
|---|
Here's how you make a paragraph appear as a block quotation.
| bq. Here's how you make a paragraph appear as a block quotation.
|
Lines of quoted text
one more line and one more
| {quote}Lines of quoted text
one more line and one more{quote} |
Emoticons
You can add various emoticons.
| What you'll get | What you need to type |
|---|
 | :) |
 | :( |
 | (!) |
 | (/) |
 | (+) |
 | (-) |
 | (?) |
 | (i) |