RuneScape:Editing Guide

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This page contains useful mark-up and syntax information needed to edit a wiki page.

Text formatting

Bolding Text To bold text, use <b></b> tags, three single quotes, or for whole lines, a semicolon.	<b>Hi!</b> '''Hi!''' ;Hi! Hi!
Underlining Text To underline text, use <u></u> tags.	<u>Bye!</u> Bye!
Striking Text To strike text, use <s></s> tags.	<s>Hi!</s> Hi!
Italicising Text To italicise text, use <i></i> tags or two single quotes.	<i>Hi!</i> ''Hi!'' Hi!
Superscripts/Subscripts Use <sup></sup> for superscripts and <sub></sub> for subscripts.	Hi!<sup>Bye!</sup> Hi!Bye! Bye!<sub>Hi!</sub> Bye!Hi!
Other Fonts <tt>This gives you typewriter font.</tt> <span style="font-variant:small-caps">This gives you small caps.</span>.	This gives you typewriter font. This gives you small caps.
Positioning and Ordering Text <div align="center"></div> will center text. <div align="left"></div> and <div align="right"></div> will align text left and right respectively. Colons indent text. Multiple colons will indent text further. Asterisks will bullet text, and multiple asterisks will indent the bullets. The # key will number text, and multiple #'s will further indent the numbering but will restart the numbering from 1.	<div align="center">Bye!</div> Bye! *Hi! **Bye! ***Hi! ****Bye! Hi! Bye! Hi! Bye! #Bye! ##Hi! #Bye! ###Hi! ##Bye! Bye! Hi! Bye! Hi! Bye!
Ignoring Code Use <nowiki></nowiki> tags to ignore code.	<nowiki><b>Hi!</b></nowiki> <b>Hi!</b>

Headers

To make a header, put equal signs around the text. The more equal signs, the smaller the header. =The Biggest Header= ==A Smaller Header== ===Even Smaller=== ====Minuscule====

Links

When clicked will they direct the browser to that page. The link will appear red if it does not exist. For example, [[dragon fingernails]] does not exist and will produce dragon fingernails. Any url will be automatically linked. For example, http://www.runescape.com will automatically appear as http://www.runescape.com (The link has to start with "http://") A link can be named by using the "|" separator followed by its name. [[magic|A Powerful Skill]] will give A Powerful Skill. Exception: For linking out of the Old School RuneScape Wiki, do not use the "|" separator. [http://www.runescape.com An Awesome Game] will give An Awesome Game, and [http://www.runescape.com|An Awesome Game] will not. It will only include the "|" in its name.

Colour in templates

Main article: RuneScape:Colour codes

White : #ffffff Black: #000000 Red : #ff0000 Yellow : #ffff00 Lime/Light Green : #00ff00 Dark Green : #008000 Olive : #808000 Blue : #0000ff Teal : #008080 Aqua/Cyan : #00ffff Navy Blue : #000080 Purple : #800080 Fuchsia/Light Purple : #ff00ff Maroon : #800000 Silver : #c0c0c0 Gray : #808080

Table syntax

Tables always start on a new line with

Example:

{|
|Jagex
|Rules
|}

would yield:

Jagex

Rules

Of course, it is hard to visually distinguish between the cells in the above simple table. Adding class="wikitable" will rectify that this. Also, a new row of cells can be created by adding |- on a new line.

Example:

{| class="wikitable"
|Old School RuneScape
|Wiki
|-
|Jagex
|Rules
|}

would yield:

Old School RuneScape	Wiki
Jagex	Rules

Finally, adding in a heading involves starting a new line with ! instead of |, like so:

{| class="wikitable"
!HP Level
!Firebuilding Level
|-
|50
|70
|}

would yield:

HP Level	Firebuilding Level
50	70

It is possible to make tables more complex than this, with more columns and rows (and other features).

External links

• Help:Table - For more information on tables.
• Web colours - For many HTML Web colours.