Help:WikiMarkup

 Wikitext is the main markup language used to format content on Fandom. It can be used to add photos, tables, bold styles, links, and many other visual changes.

It's not necessary to know wikitext in order to edit a page: you can use the VisualEditor, or visual mode in the classic editor, to avoid it. However, users who learn it may appreciate the additional control they have over page content.

Wikitext can be used via 'source mode' in either editor. To access an article's wikitext:
 * On UCP wikis:
 * VisualEditor: click "Visual Editor" in the top middle, above the edit bar, which will open a menu where you can select "source editing".
 * Before editing, you can go right to source mode by clicking the arrow next to the edit button, and clicking "Edit source" from the drop-down menu.


 * On legacy wikis:
 * Classic editor: click the "Source" tab at the top right of the edit area.
 * VisualEditor: click the menu button towards the right side of the toolbar, and choose 'Source Editor'.

On both platforms, you can also choose your preferred editor in preferences, and it will open by default when you click the edit button.  Below is an outline of basic wikitext that you can use while editing. Many of the options listed below have shortcut buttons in the editor toolbars.

Further wikitext examples
For more complex content that is sometimes more easily managed with wikitext editing, see:


 * Help:Galleries, Slideshows, and Sliders/wikitext
 * Help:Main page column tags
 * Help:Templates
 * Help:Signature
 * Help:Tables
 * Help:Magic words

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