Tutorial:Wikitext basics

Statistics Explained Markup codes For more details, see Wikitext advanced or Mediawiki Help Formatting
Description	You type	You get
Italic text	''italic'' (note: type twice ', not " !)	italic
Bold text	'''bold'''	bold
Bold and italic	'''''bold & italic'''''	bold & italic
Internal link (within Statistics Explained)	[[Name of page|]] [[Glossary:Name of page|Text to display]]	Name of page Text to display
External link (to other website, for instance www.example.org)	[http://www.example.org Text to display] [http://www.example.org] http://www.example.org	Text to display [1] http://www.example.org
Redirect to another page (usually in 'Glossary' namespace	#REDIRECT [[Glossary:Target page]]	Glossary:Target page
Redirect to other section with a header within the same page	[[#Target_header|Target header]]	Target header
Creating a footnote (reference)	To create a footnote (reference), use this format: Article text<ref>Text of the footnote (including any links, for instance [http://www.example.org Link text]).</ref>	Article text
	To reuse the same note, reuse the name with a trailing slash: Article text.<ref name="test" />
	To display notes, add either of these lines to the References section <references/> Template:Tl
Section headings A table of contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article. Avoid levels 4-5, this might overload table of contents; use instead bold normal text line with blank line before and after.	==Level 1== ===Level 2=== ====Level 3==== =====Level 4===== ======Level 5======	Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5
Bulleted list Empty lines between list items advised against, see numbered lists.	*One *Two **Two point one *Three	One Two Two point one Three
Numbered list Empty lines between list items restarts numbering at 1.	#One #Two ##Two point one #Three	One Two Two point one Three
Thumbnail image, size 350 pixels, positioned to the right	[[Image:Eurostat logo RGB 60.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Text of caption below the image]]	Text of caption below the image
Display on next line	<br style="clear: both" />	(text following markup is displayed on next line)
No table of contents	__notoc__	(no table of contents is displayed)
Table of contents at specific location	__toc__	(table of contents is displayed at the specific location where this code is inserted in article)
Indenting Text	no indent (normal) :first indent ::second indent :::third indent	no indent (normal) first indent second indent third indent