Using Wiki Markup

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	`a` `numbered` `list`	`# 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` `numbered` `list`	`* a` `* bulleted` `* list`
Bulleted nested list	some bullet indented bullets points	`* 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)

Using Wiki Markup

Text Effects

Headings

Biggest heading

Big heading

Small heading