Formatting Syntax
DokuWiki supports some simple markup language, which tries to make the datafiles to be as readable as possible. This page contains all possible syntax you may use when editing the pages. Simply have a look at the source of this page by pressing „Edit this page“. If you want to try something, just use the playground page. The simpler markup is easily accessible via quickbuttons, too.
Basic Text Formatting
DokuWiki supports bold, italic, underlined and monospaced
texts. Of course you can combine
all these.
DokuWiki supports **bold**, //italic//, __underlined__ and ''monospaced'' texts. Of course you can **__//''combine''//__** all these.
You can use subscript and superscript, too.
You can use <sub>subscript</sub> and <sup>superscript</sup>, too.
You can mark something as deleted as well.
You can mark something as <del>deleted</del> as well.
Paragraphs are created from blank lines. If you want to force a newline without a paragraph, you can use two backslashes followed by a whitespace or the end of line.
This is some text with some linebreaks
Note that the
two backslashes are only recognized at the end of a line
or followed by
a whitespace \\this happens without it.
This is some text with some linebreaks\\ Note that the
two backslashes are only recognized at the end of a line\\
or followed by\\ a whitespace \\this happens without it.
You should use forced newlines only if really needed.
Links
DokuWiki supports multiple ways of creating links.
External
External links are recognized automagically: http://www.google.com or simply www.google.com - You can set the link text as well: This Link points to google. Email addresses like this one: andi@splitbrain.org are recognized, too.
DokuWiki supports multiple ways of creating links. External links are recognized automagically: http://www.google.com or simply www.google.com - You can set link text as well: [[http://www.google.com|This Link points to google]]. Email addresses like this one: <andi@splitbrain.org> are recognized, too.
Internal
Internal links are created by using square brackets. You can either just give a pagename or use an additional link text.
Internal links are created by using square brackets. You can either just give a [[pagename]] or use an additional [[pagename|link text]].
Wiki pagenames are converted to lowercase automatically, special characters are not allowed.
You can use namespaces by using a colon in the pagename.
You can use [[some:namespaces]] by using a colon in the pagename.
For details about namespaces see namespaces.
Linking to a specific section is possible, too. Just add the section name behind a hash character as known from HTML. This links to this Section.
This links to [[syntax#internal|this Section]].
Notes:
- Links to existing pages are shown in a different style from nonexisting ones.
- When a section's heading is changed, its bookmark changes, too. So don't rely on section linking too much.
Interwiki
DokuWiki supports Interwiki links. These are quick links to other Wikis. For example this is a link to Wikipedia's page about Wikis: Wiki.
DokuWiki supports [[doku>Interwiki]] links. These are quick links to other Wikis. For example this is a link to Wikipedia's page about Wikis: [[wp>Wiki]].
Windows Shares
Windows shares like this are recognized, too. Please note that these only make sense in a homogeneous user group like a corporate Intranet.
Windows Shares like [[\\server\share|this]] are recognized, too.
Notes:
- For security reasons direct browsing of windows shares only works in Microsoft Internet Explorer per default (and only in the „local zone“).
- For Mozilla and Firefox it can be enabled through different workaround mentioned in the Mozilla Knowledge Base. However, there will still be a JavaScript warning about trying to open a Windows Share. To remove this warning (for all users), put the following line in
conf/lang/en/lang.php
(more details at localization):- conf/lang/en/lang.php
<?php /** * Customization of the english language file * Copy only the strings that needs to be modified */ $lang['js']['nosmblinks'] = '';
Image Links
You can also use an image to link to another internal or external page by combining the syntax for links and images (see below) like this:
[[http://php.net|{{wiki:dokuwiki-128.png}}]]
Please note: The image formatting is the only formatting syntax accepted in link names.
The whole image and link syntax is supported (including image resizing, internal and external images and URLs and interwiki links).
Footnotes
You can add footnotes 1) by using double parentheses.
You can add footnotes ((This is a footnote)) by using double parentheses.
Sectioning
You can use up to five different levels of headlines to structure your content. If you have more than three headlines, a table of contents is generated automatically – this can be disabled by including the string ~~NOTOC~~
in the document.
Headline Level 3
Headline Level 4
Headline Level 5
==== Headline Level 3 ==== === Headline Level 4 === == Headline Level 5 ==
By using four or more dashes, you can make a horizontal line:
Media Files
You can include external and internal images, videos and audio files with curly brackets. Optionally you can specify the size of them.
Resize to given width and height2):
Real size: {{wiki:dokuwiki-128.png}} Resize to given width: {{wiki:dokuwiki-128.png?50}} Resize to given width and height: {{wiki:dokuwiki-128.png?200x50}} Resized external image: {{https://secure.php.net/images/php.gif?200x50}}
By using left or right whitespaces you can choose the alignment.
{{ wiki:dokuwiki-128.png}} {{wiki:dokuwiki-128.png }} {{ wiki:dokuwiki-128.png }}
Of course, you can add a title (displayed as a tooltip by most browsers), too.
{{ wiki:dokuwiki-128.png |This is the caption}}
For linking an image to another page see Image Links above.
Supported Media Formats
DokuWiki can embed the following media formats directly.
Image | gif , jpg , png |
Video | webm , ogv , mp4 |
Audio | ogg , mp3 , wav |
Flash | swf |
If you specify a filename that is not a supported media format, then it will be displayed as a link instead.
By adding ?linkonly
you provide a link to the media without displaying it inline
{{wiki:dokuwiki-128.png?linkonly}}
dokuwiki-128.png This is just a link to the image.
Fallback Formats
Unfortunately not all browsers understand all video and audio formats. To mitigate the problem, you can upload your file in different formats for maximum browser compatibility.
For example consider this embedded mp4 video:
{{video.mp4|A funny video}}
When you upload a video.webm
and video.ogv
next to the referenced video.mp4
, DokuWiki will automatically add them as alternatives so that one of the three files is understood by your browser.
Additionally DokuWiki supports a „poster“ image which will be shown before the video has started. That image needs to have the same filename as the video and be either a jpg or png file. In the example above a video.jpg
file would work.
Lists
Dokuwiki supports ordered and unordered lists. To create a list item, indent your text by two spaces and use a *
for unordered lists or a -
for ordered ones.
- This is a list
- The second item
- You may have different levels
- Another item
- The same list but ordered
- Another item
- Just use indention for deeper levels
- That's it
* This is a list
* The second item
* You may have different levels
* Another item
- The same list but ordered
- Another item
- Just use indention for deeper levels
- That's it
Also take a look at the FAQ on list items.
Text Conversions
DokuWiki can convert certain pre-defined characters or strings into images or other text or HTML.
The text to image conversion is mainly done for smileys. And the text to HTML conversion is used for typography replacements, but can be configured to use other HTML as well.
Text to Image Conversions
DokuWiki converts commonly used emoticons to their graphical equivalents. Those Smileys and other images can be configured and extended. Here is an overview of Smileys included in DokuWiki:
8-)
8-O
:-(
:-)
=)
:-/
:-\
:-?
:-D
:-P
:-O
:-X
:-|
;-)
^_^
m(
:?:
:!:
LOL
FIXME
DELETEME
Text to HTML Conversions
Typography: DokuWiki can convert simple text characters to their typographically correct entities. Here is an example of recognized characters.
→ ← ↔ ⇒ ⇐ ⇔ » « – — 640×480 © ™ ® „He thought 'It's a man's world'…“
-> <- <-> => <= <=> >> << -- --- 640x480 (c) (tm) (r) "He thought 'It's a man's world'..."
The same can be done to produce any kind of HTML, it just needs to be added to the pattern file.
There are three exceptions which do not come from that pattern file: multiplication entity (640×480), 'single' and „double quotes“. They can be turned off through a config option.
Quoting
Some times you want to mark some text to show it's a reply or comment. You can use the following syntax:
I think we should do it > No we shouldn't >> Well, I say we should > Really? >> Yes! >>> Then lets do it!
I think we should do it
No we shouldn't
Well, I say we should
Really?
Yes!
Then lets do it!
Tables
DokuWiki supports a simple syntax to create tables.
Heading 1 | Heading 2 | Heading 3 |
---|---|---|
Row 1 Col 1 | Row 1 Col 2 | Row 1 Col 3 |
Row 2 Col 1 | some colspan (note the double pipe) | |
Row 3 Col 1 | Row 3 Col 2 | Row 3 Col 3 |
Table rows have to start and end with a |
for normal rows or a ^
for headers.
^ Heading 1 ^ Heading 2 ^ Heading 3 ^ | Row 1 Col 1 | Row 1 Col 2 | Row 1 Col 3 | | Row 2 Col 1 | some colspan (note the double pipe) || | Row 3 Col 1 | Row 3 Col 2 | Row 3 Col 3 |
To connect cells horizontally, just make the next cell completely empty as shown above. Be sure to have always the same amount of cell separators!
Vertical tableheaders are possible, too.
Heading 1 | Heading 2 | |
---|---|---|
Heading 3 | Row 1 Col 2 | Row 1 Col 3 |
Heading 4 | no colspan this time | |
Heading 5 | Row 2 Col 2 | Row 2 Col 3 |
As you can see, it's the cell separator before a cell which decides about the formatting:
| ^ Heading 1 ^ Heading 2 ^ ^ Heading 3 | Row 1 Col 2 | Row 1 Col 3 | ^ Heading 4 | no colspan this time | | ^ Heading 5 | Row 2 Col 2 | Row 2 Col 3 |
You can have rowspans (vertically connected cells) by adding :::
into the cells below the one to which they should connect.
Heading 1 | Heading 2 | Heading 3 |
---|---|---|
Row 1 Col 1 | this cell spans vertically | Row 1 Col 3 |
Row 2 Col 1 | Row 2 Col 3 | |
Row 3 Col 1 | Row 2 Col 3 |
Apart from the rowspan syntax those cells should not contain anything else.
^ Heading 1 ^ Heading 2 ^ Heading 3 ^ | Row 1 Col 1 | this cell spans vertically | Row 1 Col 3 | | Row 2 Col 1 | ::: | Row 2 Col 3 | | Row 3 Col 1 | ::: | Row 2 Col 3 |
You can align the table contents, too. Just add at least two whitespaces at the opposite end of your text: Add two spaces on the left to align right, two spaces on the right to align left and two spaces at least at both ends for centered text.
Table with alignment | ||
---|---|---|
right | center | left |
left | right | center |
xxxxxxxxxxxx | xxxxxxxxxxxx | xxxxxxxxxxxx |
This is how it looks in the source:
^ Table with alignment ^^^ | right| center |left | |left | right| center | | xxxxxxxxxxxx | xxxxxxxxxxxx | xxxxxxxxxxxx |
Note: Vertical alignment is not supported.
No Formatting
If you need to display text exactly like it is typed (without any formatting), enclose the area either with <nowiki>
tags or even simpler, with double percent signs %%
.
This is some text which contains addresses like this: http://www.splitbrain.org and **formatting**, but nothing is done with it. The same is true for //__this__ text// with a smiley ;-).
<nowiki> This is some text which contains addresses like this: http://www.splitbrain.org and **formatting**, but nothing is done with it. </nowiki> The same is true for %%//__this__ text// with a smiley ;-)%%.
Code Blocks
You can include code blocks into your documents by either indenting them by at least two spaces (like used for the previous examples) or by using the tags <code>
or <file>
.
This is text is indented by two spaces.
This is preformatted code all spaces are preserved: like <-this
This is pretty much the same, but you could use it to show that you quoted a file.
Those blocks were created by this source:
This is text is indented by two spaces.
<code> This is preformatted code all spaces are preserved: like <-this </code>
<file>
This is pretty much the same, but you could use it to show that you quoted a file.
</file>
Syntax Highlighting
DokuWiki can highlight sourcecode, which makes it easier to read. It uses the GeSHi Generic Syntax Highlighter – so any language supported by GeSHi is supported. The syntax uses the same code and file blocks described in the previous section, but this time the name of the language syntax to be highlighted is included inside the tag, e.g. <code java>
or <file java>
.
/** * The HelloWorldApp class implements an application that * simply displays "Hello World!" to the standard output. */ class HelloWorldApp { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello World!"); //Display the string. } }
The following language strings are currently recognized: 4cs 6502acme 6502kickass 6502tasm 68000devpac abap actionscript3 actionscript ada aimms algol68 apache applescript apt_sources arm asm asp asymptote autoconf autohotkey autoit avisynth awk bascomavr bash basic4gl batch bf biblatex bibtex blitzbasic bnf boo caddcl cadlisp ceylon cfdg cfm chaiscript chapel cil c_loadrunner clojure c_mac cmake cobol coffeescript c cpp cpp-qt cpp-winapi csharp css cuesheet c_winapi dart dcl dcpu16 dcs delphi diff div dos dot d ecmascript eiffel email epc e erlang euphoria ezt f1 falcon fo fortran freebasic freeswitch fsharp gambas gdb genero genie gettext glsl gml gnuplot go groovy gwbasic haskell haxe hicest hq9plus html html4strict html5 icon idl ini inno intercal io ispfpanel java5 java javascript jcl j jquery julia kixtart klonec klonecpp kotlin latex lb ldif lisp llvm locobasic logtalk lolcode lotusformulas lotusscript lscript lsl2 lua m68k magiksf make mapbasic mathematica matlab mercury metapost mirc mk-61 mmix modula2 modula3 mpasm mxml mysql nagios netrexx newlisp nginx nimrod nsis oberon2 objc objeck ocaml-brief ocaml octave oobas oorexx oracle11 oracle8 oxygene oz parasail parigp pascal pcre perl6 perl per pf phix php-brief php pic16 pike pixelbender pli plsql postgresql postscript povray powerbuilder powershell proftpd progress prolog properties providex purebasic pycon pys60 python qbasic qml q racket rails rbs rebol reg rexx robots roff rpmspec rsplus ruby rust sas sass scala scheme scilab scl sdlbasic smalltalk smarty spark sparql sql sshconfig standardml stonescript swift systemverilog tclegg tcl teraterm texgraph text thinbasic tsql twig typoscript unicon upc urbi uscript vala vbnet vb vbscript vedit verilog vhdl vim visualfoxpro visualprolog whitespace whois winbatch wolfram xbasic xml xojo xorg_conf xpp yaml z80 zxbasic
There are additional advanced options available for syntax highlighting, such as highlighting lines or adding line numbers.
Downloadable Code Blocks
When you use the <code>
or <file>
syntax as above, you might want to make the shown code available for download as well. You can do this by specifying a file name after language code like this:
<file php myexample.php> <?php echo "hello world!"; ?> </file>
- myexample.php
<?php echo "hello world!"; ?>
If you don't want any highlighting but want a downloadable file, specify a dash (-
) as the language code: <code - myfile.foo>
.
Embedding HTML and PHP
You can embed raw HTML or PHP code into your documents by using the <html>
or <php>
tags. (Use uppercase tags if you need to enclose block level elements.)
HTML example:
<html> This is some <span style="color:red;font-size:150%;">inline HTML</span> </html> <HTML> <p style="border:2px dashed red;">And this is some block HTML</p> </HTML>
This is some inline HTML
And this is some block HTML
PHP example:
<php> echo 'The PHP version: '; echo phpversion(); echo ' (generated inline HTML)'; </php> <PHP> echo '<table class="inline"><tr><td>The same, but inside a block level element:</td>'; echo '<td>'.phpversion().'</td>'; echo '</tr></table>'; </PHP>
echo 'The PHP version: ';
echo phpversion();
echo ' (inline HTML)';
echo '<table class="inline"><tr><td>The same, but inside a block level element:</td>'; echo '<td>'.phpversion().'</td>'; echo '</tr></table>';
Please Note: HTML and PHP embedding is disabled by default in the configuration. If disabled, the code is displayed instead of executed.
RSS/ATOM Feed Aggregation
DokuWiki can integrate data from external XML feeds. For parsing the XML feeds, SimplePie is used. All formats understood by SimplePie can be used in DokuWiki as well. You can influence the rendering by multiple additional space separated parameters:
Parameter | Description |
---|---|
any number | will be used as maximum number items to show, defaults to 8 |
reverse | display the last items in the feed first |
author | show item authors names |
date | show item dates |
description | show the item description. If HTML is disabled all tags will be stripped |
nosort | do not sort the items in the feed |
n[dhm] | refresh period, where d=days, h=hours, m=minutes. (e.g. 12h = 12 hours). |
The refresh period defaults to 4 hours. Any value below 10 minutes will be treated as 10 minutes. DokuWiki will generally try to supply a cached version of a page, obviously this is inappropriate when the page contains dynamic external content. The parameter tells DokuWiki to re-render the page if it is more than refresh period since the page was last rendered.
By default the feed will be sorted by date, newest items first. You can sort it by oldest first using the reverse
parameter, or display the feed as is with nosort
.
Example:
{{rss>http://slashdot.org/index.rss 5 author date 1h }}
- Unprecedented Number of Heat Records Broken Around World This Year von msmash (2024-08-14 23:23)
- Sonos Lays Off 100 Employees as Its App Crisis Continues von msmash (2024-08-14 22:42)
- Gamer Connects 444 Consoles To Single TV, Sets World Record von msmash (2024-08-14 22:01)
- WHO Declares Mpox Outbreak a Global Health Emergency von msmash (2024-08-14 21:20)
- Eric Schmidt Says Google Is Falling Behind on AI - And Remote Work Is Why von msmash (2024-08-14 20:40)
Control Macros
Some syntax influences how DokuWiki renders a page without creating any output it self. The following control macros are availble:
Macro | Description |
---|---|
~~NOTOC~~ | If this macro is found on the page, no table of contents will be created |
~~NOCACHE~~ | DokuWiki caches all output by default. Sometimes this might not be wanted (eg. when the <php> syntax above is used), adding this macro will force DokuWiki to rerender a page on every call |
Syntax Plugins
DokuWiki's syntax can be extended by Plugins. How the installed plugins are used is described on their appropriate description pages. The following syntax plugins are available in this particular DokuWiki installation:
- Blog 2023-10-24 von Michael Hamann, Michael Klier, Gina Haeussge
Use DokuWiki as blogging tool. (previous authors: Esther Brunner) - Box Plugin 2021-12-28 von Gerry Weißbach
Boxes with titles, colour and rounded corners. Syntax: <box width class colors style=value|title> ... </box|caption> width, class, colours title & caption are optional. The title can include some wiki markup, the box contents can include almost any wiki markup. - Cloud Plugin 2023-02-11 von Michael Hamann, Michael Klier, Gina Haeussge
Displays the most used words in a word cloud. - Comment Syntax support 2022-01-01 von Satoshi Sahara
Allow to use source comment syntax to leave edit instructions of the page. Comments are visible only in the source view, not rendered as any page elements. - Countdown Plugin 2020-11-01 von Ron Peters, Ekkart Kleinod, Luis Machuca Bezzaza
Countdown to a specific date - Calendar PlugIn with CalDAV sharing support 2022-08-04 von Andreas Boehler
Create one calendar per page and share/subscribe via CalDAV - discussion plugin 2021-12-31 von Michael Hamann, Gerrit Uitslag, Gina Häussge, Christopher Smith, Michael Klier, Esther Brunner, Matthias Schulte
Provides discussion funtionality for wiki pages - Emoji Substitution 2019-05-14 von Patrick Brown
Emoji substitution plugin using graphics from EmojiOne <http://www.emojione.com> - Gallery Plugin 2024-04-30 von Andreas Gohr
Creates a gallery of images from a namespace or RSS/ATOM feed - iframe plugin 2023-08-17 von Christopher Smith
Allows external URLs to be loaded into an iframe in your DokuWiki page. - Plugin imagebox 2023-08-21 von Lukas Rademacher, CvH, Dr-Yukon, FFTiger & myst6re
Syntax for display an image with a caption, like Wikipedia.org - include plugin 2023-09-22 von Michael Hamann, Gina Häussge, Christopher Smith, Michael Klier, Esther Brunner
Functions to include another page in a wiki page - Indexmenu Plugin 2024-01-05 von Samuele Tognini, Gerrit Uitslag
Show a customizable and sortable index for a namespace - Linkback plugin 2023-12-30 von Michael Hamann, Gina Häußge
Adds Trackback and Pingback support to DokuWiki - Meta plugin 2021-10-16 von Michael Hamann
Set Metadata for the current page. (previous authors: Esther Brunner, Gina Häußge, Michael Klier) - Open Document Plugin 2023-03-03 von Andreas Gohr, Aurelien Bompard, Florian Lamml, LarsDW223
Export the current Wiki page to a OpenOffice ODT file - OpenLayers map plugin for DokuWiki 2024-05-30 von Mark C. Prins
Provides a syntax for rendering an OpenLayers based map in a wiki page. - Pagelist Plugin 2023-08-27 von Matthias Schulte, Michael Hamann, Michael Klier, Gina Haeussge
Lists pages in a nice formatted way - Page Navigation Plugin 2020-12-07 von Andreas Gohr
Displays links to the next or previous alphabetically ordered page - PhotoGallery Plugin 2023-06-25 von Anna Dabrowska, Marco Nolletti
Creates a gallery of images from a namespace - Publish Plugin 2022-09-08 von Jarrod Lowe, Andreas Gohr, Dominik Eckelmann
Integrate a publishing process into DokuWiki - Random Include Plugin 2018-04-28 von Vittorio Rigamonti, LarsDW223
Randomly select a page from a namespace and include it in the current page - Subjectindex Plugin 2014-05-04 von Symon Bent
Hierarchical structured tagging: create A-Z subject index pages for your wiki, based on in-place entries|tags in pages. - tablelayout plugin 2022-03-28 von Michael Große
Set the width of table columns and set which lines to fix - Tagging Plugin 2023-09-27 von Adrian Lang
Allow users to annotate pages with tags, search for tags and show useful tag clouds. - Tag Plugin 2023-10-17 von Michael Hamann, Gina Häussge, Christopher Smith, Michael Klier, Esther Brunner
tag wiki pages - Typography plugin 2020-07-31 von Satoshi Sahara
Enable typesetting capabilities with CSS font properties such as font face, size, weight, and color of text - Video Sharing Site Plugin 2024-03-24 von Andreas Gohr
Easily embed videos from various Video Sharing sites. Example: {{youtube>XXXXXX}} - Wrap Plugin 2023-08-13 von Anika Henke
Universal plugin which combines functionalities of many other plugins. Wrap wiki text inside containers (divs or spans) and give them a class (choose from a variety of preset classes), a width and/or a language with its associated text direction. - Yearbox Plugin 2021-03-19 von Michael Große (formerly: Symon Bent)
Builds a complete HTML calendar for the given year, with a link to create a new page for each day of the year. Existing pages will have a tooltip showing a preview of the page content.