| General Features | XWiki | Papyrs | ikiwiki | Foswiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
18.7.0
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N/A
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2.67
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2.1.11
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| Last Release Date |
2026-08-31 (13 days ago)
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N/A
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2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
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2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-08-31 (13 days ago)
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2020-08-06 (6 years ago)
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2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
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2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
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| Author |
XWiki Development Team
|
Stunf BV
|
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
Foswiki Community
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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N/A
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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N/A
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GPL
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
Java
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N/A
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Perl
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Perl
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| Data Storage |
Database, RCS
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N/A
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Files, RCS
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Files, RCS
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
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0
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$0
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| Development status |
Mature
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N/A
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
Companies, teams and professionals.
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Anyone
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Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
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| Hosting Features | XWiki | Papyrs | ikiwiki | Foswiki |
| Storage Quota |
161061273600
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N/A
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N/A
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|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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| Other Limits |
N/A
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N/A
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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N/A
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| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
No
|
No
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N/A
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | XWiki | Papyrs | ikiwiki | Foswiki |
| Operating System |
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
|
N/A
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Any
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
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| Root Access |
No
|
N/A
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Servlet 5.0+
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N/A
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Any, or none
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Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
| Other Requirements |
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
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N/A
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RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
|
| Datastorage | XWiki | Papyrs | ikiwiki | Foswiki |
| Text Files |
No
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N/A
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Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
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| Oracle |
Yes
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N/A
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No
|
No
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| SQLite |
No
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N/A
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No
|
No
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
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N/A
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No
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No
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| RCS |
Plugin
|
N/A
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Yes
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Yes
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| Other |
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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N/A
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caching of content into database using plugins
|
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| Security/Anti-Spam | XWiki | Papyrs | ikiwiki | Foswiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
N/A
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Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
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Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| nofollow |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
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| Development/Support | XWiki | Papyrs | ikiwiki | Foswiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
N/A
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No
|
Yes
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| Code Repository |
N/A
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| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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118 ⭐
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| Common Features | XWiki | Papyrs | ikiwiki | Foswiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | XWiki | Papyrs | ikiwiki | Foswiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
40
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 |
1
English |
1
English |
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Comments |
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | XWiki | Papyrs | ikiwiki | Foswiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| SisterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | XWiki | Papyrs | ikiwiki | Foswiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
All
|
Optional
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
JavaScript
|
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | XWiki | Papyrs | ikiwiki | Foswiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | XWiki | Papyrs | ikiwiki | Foswiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Output | XWiki | Papyrs | ikiwiki | Foswiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | XWiki | Papyrs | ikiwiki | Foswiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
| Extras | XWiki | Papyrs | ikiwiki | Foswiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | XWiki | Papyrs | ikiwiki | Foswiki |
| 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) |
[Link](/page) |
[[internal]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
| External Link |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
[Link](https://papyrs.com) |
[link text](http://example.org) |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
| Headlines |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
## Heading |
Two syntaxes: # heading 1 ## heading 2 ### heading 3 heading 1 ========= heading 2 --------- |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold** |
**bold** __bold__ |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
//Italics// |
*italic* |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
_italic_ |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
<u>underline</u> |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
| Monospace Format |
##monospace## |
`mono` |
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
--Strike-- |
~~strikethrough~~ |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript^^ |
|
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
,,subscript,, |
|
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| 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 |
|
  |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
| Aligning Text |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
|
|
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
| Text Indentation |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
|
|
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
| Bulleted Lists |
* List ** list *** list |
- list - list |
* item 1 * item 2 * item 2.1 * item 2.2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
1. list 2. list |
1. item 1 2. item 2 1. item 1.1 42. the value doesn't matter 1. any value works |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
Link to [^1] [^1] some definition |
via HTML: <dl> <dt>term</dt> <dd>definition</dd> </dl> |
$ Term: Definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
*** |
--- *** ___ ------------------ Any number > 3 - - - - - - - - - - spaces don't matter |
--- |
| remove XWiki | remove Papyrs | remove ikiwiki | remove Foswiki |