| General Features | BookStack | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
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| Version |
v21.12.1
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18.5.0
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8.37
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| Last Release Date |
2022-01-06 (4 years ago)
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2026-06-29 (13 days ago)
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2025-06-05 (1 year ago)
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| Last Update here |
2022-01-08 (4 years ago)
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2026-06-29 (13 days ago)
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2025-06-12 (1 year ago)
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| Author |
Dan Brown
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XWiki Development Team
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https://kontextwork.de
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| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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| License |
MIT
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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Commercial
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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Java
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Java
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| Data Storage |
Database
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Database, RCS
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Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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Different licences
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
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Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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Enterprise
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| Hosting Features | BookStack | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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| Other Limits |
N/A
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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| Corporate Branding |
N/A
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Yes
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No
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| Own Domain |
N/A
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Yes
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Yes
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
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No
|
No
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| System Requirements | BookStack | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
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Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
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Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
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| Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
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Servlet 5.0+
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Apache, nginx
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| Other Requirements |
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
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Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
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| Datastorage | BookStack | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| Text Files |
No
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No
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No
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| MySQL |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| PostgreSQL |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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| Oracle |
No
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Yes
|
No
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| SQLite |
No
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No
|
No
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
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No
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No
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| RCS |
No
|
Plugin
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No
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| Other |
MariaDB
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JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
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| Security/Anti-Spam | BookStack | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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| ACL |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
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XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
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Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
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| Host Blocking |
No
|
No
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No
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| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Yes
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No
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| nofollow |
No
|
No
|
No
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| Blacklist |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
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| CAPTCHA |
No
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Yes
|
No
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| Delayed Indexing |
No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Development/Support | BookStack | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
18885 ⭐
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N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | BookStack | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| Preview |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Minor Changes |
No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Page History |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Restricted by Number
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Unlimited
|
Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
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Between all
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| Sitemap |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Special Features | BookStack | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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| Interface Languages |
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
2
German, English |
| Email notification |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Flat
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Threaded
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
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Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Structured Data |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Links | BookStack | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
No
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| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
No
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| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Syntax Features | BookStack | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
All
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
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| CREOLE support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
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| Markdown Support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
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| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
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| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Custom styles |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
None
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
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Widgets
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | BookStack | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | BookStack | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | BookStack | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Media and Files | BookStack | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| MindMap Editing |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | BookStack | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | BookStack | XWiki | Drupal Wiki |
| Internal Link |
|
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details. The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax). [[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]] [[Space.Page]] (Space is optional and is the current space if not specified) |
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog) alternatively: [[#123]] [[#123][label]] |
| External Link |
|
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor) alternatively: [[http://drupal-wiki.com]] [[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]] |
| Headlines |
|
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Bold Format |
|
**bold** |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Italics Format |
|
//Italics// |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Underline Format |
|
__underline__ |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Monospace Format |
|
##monospace## |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
--Strike-- |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Superscript Format |
|
^^superscript^^ |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Subscript Format |
|
,,subscript,, |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Images |
|
image:img.png image:Space.Page@img.png [[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]] image:http://some/url/img.png Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also: image:icon:cancel |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Aligning Text |
|
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Text Indentation |
|
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* List ** list *** list |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Numbered Lists |
|
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
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