How To Edit Pages - Quickstart

If you are allowed to edit pages in this Site, simply click on edit button at the bottom of the page. This will open an editor with a toolbar pallette with options. Here are some of the commonly used ones:

Inline Formatting

what you type what you get
//italic text// italic text
**bold text** bold text
//**italic and bold**// italic and bold
__underline text__ underline text
##blue|sky is blue## or ##red|tomato is red## sky is blue or tomato is red

List

Bulleted Lists

Make a list element by starting a line with an asterisk. To increase the indent put extra spaces
before the asterisk.

* Bullet 1
* Bullet 2
 * Bullet 2.1
  • Bullet 1
  • Bullet 2
    • Bullet 2.1

Numbered Lists

Similarly, you can create numbered lists by starting a paragraph with one or more hashes.

# Item 1
# Item 2
 # Item 2.1
  1. Item 1
  2. Item 2
    1. Item 2.1

Links

what you type what you get
[[[Troop 693 Permission Slip]]] Troop 693 Permission Slip
http://socal.hiking.info http://socal.hiking.info
[http://google.com This is link to Google home page] This is link to Google home page
[[[Troop 693 Permission Slip | Change the display text to the link]]] Change the display text to the link

Pictures / Images

Before uploading a picture verify that IT IS NOT A BIG FILE (any pictures taken from digital cameras nowadays generate very big files). Crop the pictures or reduce the size to NO MORE THEN 100 KB. Upload the file(s) to the page and then create a link using the following syntax:

[[image image-source ]]
[[f>image image-source ]] - right-float table of contents
[[f<image image-source ]] - left-float table of contents

To create a image list use:

[[gallery size="image-size"]]
: image-source1
: image-source2
...
[[/gallery]]

Image size can be: "square", "thumbnail", "small", "medium".

Tables

You can create simple tables using pairs of vertical bars:

||~ head 1 ||~ head 2 ||~ head 3 ||
|| cell 1 || cell 2 || cell 3 ||
|||| long cell 4 || cell 5 ||
||cell 6 |||| long cell 7 ||
|||||| looong cell 8||
head 1 head 2 head 3
cell 1 cell 2 cell 3
long cell 4 cell 5
cell 6 long cell 7
looong cell 8
|| lines must start and end || with double vertical bars || nothing ||
|| cells are separated by || double vertical bars || nothing ||
|||| you can span multiple columns by || starting each cell ||
|| with extra cell |||| separators ||
|||||| but perhaps an example is _
the easiest way to see ||
lines must start and end with double vertical bars nothing
cells are separated by double vertical bars nothing
you can span multiple columns by starting each cell
with extra cell separators
but perhaps an example is
the easiest way to see

Headings

To make a heading start a line with a "plus". Make as many pluses as the heading level you want to get.

+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading

Table of Contents

To create a list of every heading, with a link to that heading, put a table of contents tag on its own line.

[[toc]]
[[f>toc]] - right-float table of contents
[[f<toc]] - left-float table of contents

Although creating and editing pages is easy, there are a lot more options that allows creating powerful sites. Please visit Documentation pages to learn more.

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