| | Text Formatting FAQ
The most frequently asked questions about text formatting are answered. Also, TextFormattingRules contains the complete TWiki shorthand system on one quick reference page. |
| | The pre tag is standard HTML; verbatim is a special TWiki tag that forces text to fixed font mode, and also prevents other tags and TWiki shortcuts from being expanded. |
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How do I create tables? |
| | 1. Use Wiki rule with "|" vertical bars |
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- Example text:
| cell A1 | cell B1 | cell C1 |
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- Example text:
| cell A1 | cell B1 | cell C1 |
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| | Can I include images on a page? |
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> | Yes. The easiest way is to attach a GIF, JPG or PNG file to a topic and then to place it with: %ATTACHURL%/myImage.gif. This works only for the topic where the image is attached to. |
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> | To place an image on any topic, there are two ways of including inline images. |
| | 1. Using URL ending in .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .png
This is a simple and automatic way of including inline images. Simply write the URL of the image file, this will create the inline image for you. NOTE: The images must be accessible as a URL. |
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- You enter:
TWiki http://old.law.columbia.edu/twiki/pub/TWiki/TWikiLogos/twikilogo88x31.gif logo.
Result: TWiki  logo.
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- You enter:
%PUBURL%/TWiki/TWikiLogos/T-logo-80x15.gif logo.
Result:  logo.
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You can upload images directly to your server with FTP access. You can also attach image files to a topic - you could even create a dedicated image topic, like ImageLibrary - and then link to the images directly:
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pic.gif to Someweb.SomeTopic
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| | 2. Using <img> tag |
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- You enter:
TWiki <img src="http://old.law.columbia.edu/twiki/pub/TWiki/TWikiLogos/twikilogo88x31.gif" width="88" height="31" border="0" alt="logo" /> logo.
Result:
TWiki logo.
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- You enter:
<img src="%PUBURLPATH%/TWiki/TWikiLogos/T-logo-80x15.gif" width="80" height="15" border="0" alt="logo" /> logo.
Result:
 logo.
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Can I write colored text? |
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< | -- TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny - 15 Aug 2004
-- TWiki:Main.MikeMannix - 14 Sep 2001
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