Formatting

The Disaster Risk Gateway has been created using MediaWiki, just like Wikipedia. This software uses Wikitext, which consists of syntax and keywords to format pages. Additional formatting can be done using HTML elements.

Below are some common formatting examples.

Formatting	Type	Result
Line break	Add a line break<br />here	Add a line break here
Bold text	'''text'''	text
Italic text	''text''	text
Bold and italic text	'''''text'''''	text
Quotes	<q>This is a quotation</q>	This is a quotation
Coloured text	Colour options include: <span style="color: var(--myriad-blue)">--myriad-blue, </span><span style="color: var(--myriad-purple)">--myriad-purple, </span><span style="color: var(--myriad-pink)">--myriad-pink, </span><span style="color: var(--myriad-dkblue)">--myriad-dkblue, </span><span style="color: var(--myriad-yellow)">--myriad-yellow, </span><span style="color: var(--myriad-green)">--myriad-green</span>	Colour options include: --myriad-blue, --myriad-purple, --myriad-pink, --myriad-dkblue, --myriad-yellow, --myriad-green
Justify text	<div style="text-align:justify"> Text that needs justified alignment</div>	Text that needs justified alignment
Bullet list	* start line with asterisk then a space before text	start line with asterisk then a space before text
Number list	# start line with hashtag (number sign) then a space before text	start line with hashtag (number sign) then a space before text
Internal links	[[Main Page]]	Main Page
Internal links with specified text	[[Main_Page|My name]]	My name
External link (URLs are automatically linked)	https://www.myriadproject.eu	https://www.myriadproject.eu
External link with specified text	[https://www.myriadproject.eu/ MYRIAD-EU project]	MYRIAD-EU project