Help:Editing

The following table shows some of the main codes used when editing a page on the LGBT UK History Project. It is a modified version of the equivalent page on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet). {|align="center" style="width:100%; border:2px #a3b1bf solid; background:#f5faff; text-align:left;" Checklist for editing Works anywhere in the text  italic  italic  bold  bold  bold & italic  bold & italic  Name of page 
 * colspan="3" align="center" style="background:#cee0f2; text-align:center;" |
 * colspan=3 style="background:#E6F2FF;" |
 * colspan=3 style="background:#E6F2FF;" |
 * - style="background:#E6F2FF; padding:0.3em; font-size: 0.9em; text-align:center;"
 * width="30%" | Description
 * You type
 * width="30%" | You get
 * Italic text
 * Italic text
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Bold text
 * Bold text
 * Bold text
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Bold and italic text
 * Bold and italic text
 * Bold and italic text
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Link to another page on this Wiki
 * Link to another page on this Wiki
 * Link to another page on this Wiki

 Text to display  Name of page

Text to display  
 * Link internal heading
 * Link internal heading

 Name2  

Name2  </tt>  </tt>
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Show an image
 * Show an image
 * Show an image
 * Size an image
 * Size an image

(option "60px" means 60 pixels wide)
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Add a page to a category
 *  </tt>
 * Add a page to a category
 *  </tt>

(place near the bottom of a page) Sign your contributions when posting to a Talk Page.  ~ </tt>
 * Shows "Category name" in a bar at bottom when the page is previewed or saved.
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Signature
 * Signature
 * Signature

(Do not sign in an article, only on talk-pages.) Username (talk), 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Works only at the beginning of lines Redirects must be placed at the start of the first line.  #REDIRECT Target page </tt> Target page  #REDIRECT </tt>Target page </tt> Target page
 * colspan="3" style="background:#E6F2FF; text-align:center" |
 * colspan="3" style="background:#E6F2FF; text-align:center" |
 * - style="background:#E6F2FF; padding:0.3em; font-size: 0.9em; text-align:center;"
 * width="30%" | Description
 * You type
 * width="30%" | You get
 * Redirect to another page
 * Redirect to another page
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Redirect to a section of another page
 * Redirect to a section of another page
 * Redirect to a section of another page
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|

A Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article.  ==Level 2== </tt>

 ===Level 3=== </tt>

 ====Level 4==== </tt>

 =====Level 5===== </tt>

 ======Level 6====== </tt>

(Do not use =Level 1=  as it is for page titles)

Level 6
 ; Header name </tt>
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Nonindexed headers (left out of Table of Contents)
 * Nonindexed headers (left out of Table of Contents)
 * Nonindexed headers (left out of Table of Contents)

(has a leading semicolon ";" in front) Header name

(will not appear in Table of Contents)

* One</tt>
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Bulleted list
 * Bulleted list
 * Bulleted list

* Two</tt>

** Two point one</tt>

* Three</tt> <tt># One</tt>
 * One
 * Two
 * Two point one
 * Three
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Numbered list
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Numbered list
 * Numbered list

<tt># Two</tt>

<tt>## Two point one</tt>

<tt># Three</tt>
 * 1) One
 * 2) Two
 * 3) Two point one
 * 4) Three
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * multi-column list
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * multi-column list
 * multi-column list

''using the <tt> </tt> template <tt> • 3 </tt> • 3
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Indenting text
 * Indenting text
 * Indenting text

<tt> no indent (normal) </tt>

<tt> :first indent </tt>

<tt> ::second indent </tt>

<tt> :::third indent </tt> no indent (normal)


 * first indent
 * second indent
 * third indent

Adding footnote references <tt> Hello, World. </tt>
 * colspan="3" style="background:#E6F2FF; text-align:center" |
 * colspan="3" style="background:#E6F2FF; text-align:center" |
 * colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Insert footnotes as references in a page to list at page bottom
 * colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid #cee0f2;"|
 * Insert footnotes as references in a page to list at page bottom
 * Insert footnotes as references in a page to list at page bottom

<tt>