User:TheGnuGod/Styling

Subheading guide

Surrounding text with varying quantities of equals signs makes then in to subheadings. That one just up there is made with one equals sign on either side.

Two is a good size for a subheading

Make sure it's in sentence case!

Three lets you make a subberheading

That word is not official, but it should be

Four is super sub

Not used often, but enough that it exists

This is the subbest heading you can make (five)

Any more than this and it renders like the subbest heading but with equals signs on the edges

Basic formatting

You can make text italic, bold or both, by placing 2, 3, or 5 apostrophe signs around your text like this: ''ilatic'' '''bold''' '''''both'''''.

Colours

To make stuff a different colour, use a <span> tag, and style it like this: <span style="color: #HEXCODE;">, where HEXCODE is the RRGGBB values of the colour you want to display, written in hexadecimal. (commonly called a hex code)

Code

To show code you can use the <code> tag to surround text, and it will be rendered in a monospace font. The code will likely include wiki characters though, so you can use the <nowiki> tag inside your <code> tags, to escape out HTML and the like. (Note: you must use the <nowiki> tags inside the <code> tags, or the <code> tags will get nowiki'd.)

Text Size

To make big text, use the <big> tag!

To make small text, use the <small> tag!

Nothing happens when you use both.

More advanced CSS

You can easily apply

more advanced styling

to wikitext, by putting it inside a <div style="SOMECSS; MORE;"> tag, and replacing the caps-lock text with actual CSS. You almost definitely shouldn't do this on a real article, but it can work on user pages, or if you're making a template.

You can find a CSS tutorial here: [1], or just search "w3" and w3schools should come up.