This page aims to introduce the most important elements of MoinMoin's syntax at a glance, showing first the markup verbatim and then how it is rendered by the wiki engine. Additionally, you'll find links to the relative help pages. Please note that some of the features depend on your configuration.

Table of Contents

'''Contents''' (up to the 2nd level)
[[TableOfContents(2)]]

Contents (up to the 2nd level) TableOfContents(2)

Headings

see: HelpOnHeadlines

= heading 1st level =
== heading 2nd level ==
=== heading 3rd level ===
==== heading 4th level ====
===== heading 5th level =====

heading 1st level

heading 2nd level

heading 3rd level

heading 4th level

heading 5th level

Text Formatting

see: HelpOnFormatting

 * ''emphasized (italics)''
 * '''boldface'''
 * '''''bold italics'''''
 * `monospace`
 * {{{source code

}}}

Hyperlinks

see: HelpOnLinking

 * FrontPage
 * ["FrontPage"]
 * HelpOnEditing/SubPages
 * /SubPage
 * ../SiblingPage
 * [:FrontPage:named link]
 * [#anchorname]
 * [#anchorname description]
 * [wiki:Self:PageName#anchorname]
 * [wiki:Self:PageName#anchorname description]
 * attachment:filename.txt

 * http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/
 * [http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/]
 * [http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ MoinMoin Wiki]
 * [http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/wiki/moinmoin.png]
 * http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/wiki/moinmoin.png
 * [http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/wiki/moinmoin.png moinmoin.png]
 * MeatBall:InterWiki
 * wiki:MeatBall/InterWiki
 * [wiki:MeatBall/InterWiki]
 * [wiki:MeatBall/InterWiki InterWiki page on MeatBall]
 * [file://///servername/share/full/path/to/file/filename%20with%20spaces.txt link to file filename with spaces.txt]
 * user@example.com

Avoid or Limit Automatical Linking

 * Wiki''''''Name
 * Wiki``Name
 * !WikiName
 * WikiName''''''s
 * WikiName``s
 * `http://www.example.com`

Blockquotes and Indentions

 indented text
  text indented to the 2nd level

Lists

see: HelpOnLists

Unordered Lists

 * item 1

 * item 2 (preceding white space)
  * item 2.1
   * item 2.1.1
 * item 3
  . item 3.1 (bulletless)
 . item 4 (bulletless)
  * item 4.1
   . item 4.1.1 (bulletless)

Ordered Lists

with Numbers

 1. item 1
   1. item 1.1
   1. item 1.2
 1. item 2
  1. item 1
    1. item 1.1
    2. item 1.2
  2. item 2

with Roman Numbers

 I. item 1
   i. item 1.1
   i. item 1.2
 I. item 2
  1. item 1
    1. item 1.1
    2. item 1.2
  2. item 2

with Letters

 A. item A
   a. item A. a)
   a. item A. b)
 A. item B
  1. item A
    1. item A. a)
    2. item A. b)
  2. item B

Definition Lists

 term:: definition
 object:: description 1
 :: description 2
 Action Items::
 :: First Item
 :: Second Item
term
definition
object
description 1
description 2
Action Items
First Item
Second Item

Horizontal Rules

see: HelpOnRules

----
-----
------
-------
--------
---------
----------








Tables

see: HelpOnTables

Tables

||'''A'''||'''B'''||'''C'''||
||1      ||2      ||3      ||

A

B

C

1

2

3

Cell Width

||minimal width ||<99%>maximal width ||

minimal width

maximal width

Spanning Rows and Columns

||<|2> cell spanning 2 rows ||cell in the 2nd column ||
||cell in the 2nd column of the 2nd row ||
||<-2> cell spanning 2 columns ||
||||use empty cells as a shorthand ||

cell spanning 2 rows

cell in the 2nd column

cell in the 2nd column of the 2nd row

cell spanning 2 columns

use empty cells as a shorthand

Alignment of Cell Contents

||<^|3> top (combined) ||<:99%> center (combined) ||<v|3> bottom (combined) ||
||<)> right ||
||<(> left ||

top (combined)

center (combined)

bottom (combined)

right

left

Coulored Table Cells

||<#0000FF> blue ||<#00FF00> green    ||<#FF0000> red    ||
||<#00FFFF> cyan ||<#FF00FF> magenta  ||<#FFFF00> yellow ||

blue

green

red

cyan

magenta

yellow

HTML-like Options for Tables

||A ||<rowspan="2"> like <|2> ||
||<bgcolor="#00FF00"> like <#00FF00> ||
||<colspan="2"> like <-2>||

A

like <|2>

like <#00FF00>

like <-2>

Macros and Variables

Macros

see: HelpOnMacros

Variables

see: HelpOnVariables

Smileys and Icons

see: HelpOnSmileys ShowSmileys

Source code

see: HelpOnParsers

Verbatim Display

{ { {
def hello():
    print "Hello World!"
} } }

/!\ Remove spaces between "{ { {" and "} } }".

def hello():
    print "Hello World!"

Syntax Highlighting

{ { {#!python
def hello():
    print "Hello World!"
} } }

/!\ Remove spaces between "{ { {" and "} } }".

   1 def hello():
   2     print "Hello World!"