There are currently four different markup options on CurseForge. Each one is different and will be covered in more detail below.
WikiCreole
WikiCreole attempts to be a universal wiki markup language to be used across different wiki software. It is far more standardized and sane than many other wiki formats, especially MediaWiki and Curse Wiki. We hope for it to be an adequate successor to Curse Wiki on curseforge and wowace.
More information can be found at http://www.wikicreole.org
Unlike the old and incomplete Curse Wiki, we properly support linking within a project and also to other projects. e.g. [[Ace3:Getting Started]] would actually link to Ace3's getting started page (if on the WoW game or wowace) or [[WoW/Ace3:Getting Started]] otherwise. You can also do [[KB:Markup Types]] to link to this knowledge base page.
For a cheat sheet on syntax, see Markup Types / WikiCreole
BBCode
The following BBCode tags are supported:
- [b]
- Bold
- [i]
- Italic
- [u]
- Underline
- [s]
strikethrough- [link]
- A hyper link
- [url]
- a url
- [quote]
- quoting
- [img]
- displays an image
- [wiki]
- Displays a wikipedia search link.
- [google]
- Displays a google search link.
- [dict] or [dictionary]
- looks up a word via dictionary.com
- [list]
- opens a list
- [*]
- a item in a list
- [code]
- a preformatted code block
- [size=13]
- font size
- [color=red]
- font color
- [paste]1234[/paste]
- show a paste from paste.CurseForge.com
Note: Our BBCode implementation is a thin wrapper around WikiCreole. The BBCode tags are converted to WikiCreole, and then that parser is used.
Safe HTML
This allows you to use a subset of html in your postings.
Valid Tags:
- a
- p
- b
- br
- hr
- strong
- u
- em
- i
- img
- div
- span
- center
- table
- td
- tr
- thead
- tfoot
- tbody
- caption
- colgroup
- rowgroup
- ol
- ul
- li
- h2
- h3
- h4
- h5
- h6
You may use the following attributes:
- name
- title
- width
- height
- href
- src
Textile
A lightweight markup language. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_(markup_language) for more details.
Markdown
Another lightweight markup language. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown for more details.
Plain Text
Just what it sounds like. This simply escapes characters, urlizes links, replaces newlines with a br tag and wraps paragraphs with p tags.
Curse Wiki (Deprecated)
Curse Wiki is modeled after MediaWiki's markup. As a result most of MediaWiki's standard usage will apply.
Most notable difference is the lack of simple linking, i.e. [SubPage] won't render properly.
Also Image links won't work. There may be others that I'm not aware of (I didn't write the current implementation), so please make me aware of them.
This markup language has been deprecated in favor of WikiCreole.
Facts
- Date created
- 25 Jun 2008
- Last updated
- 04 Aug 2009
- #15
TheVioletDagger Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:13:46thevioletdaggerguild.ning.com
- #14
king1027 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:22:30- #13
king1027 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:21:52errrr....I mean this "source" [IMG]http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k76/wking1027/snap016.gif[/IMG]
- #12
Pavel82 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:05:36dfrtvfa
- #11
watchout Thu, 14 May 2009 20:27:24Is there a way to link to an anchor on a wikipage in creole?
If I try something like #w-anchor-name in the wikilink, the url parser just removes the # and links to the nonexistent page "w-anchor-name"...
- #10
Farmbuyer Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:01:06The Curse Wiki markup is not just "deprecated", it is in fact broken. If you make edits to the description of an existing project that was originally in Curse Wiki, those changes are silently discarded when you click save. Changing the markup to anything else allows changes to be made.
- #9
Hissnspit Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:19:11I dont understand what to type here. I cannont download using the using Curse client button on the website. THe Find Addon page in the Addonfoler in WOW is greyed out and is not displaying any list.
- #8
MightyHaz Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:17:58You can work around the lack of the pre in Safe HTML with the following style:
style="white-space:pre;font-family:courier"
(Substituting 'monospace' for courier, at will.)
- #7
LokiCoyote Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:04:19For some reason if you use curse wiki in a project page, the separation between the first paragraph and the next is consumed.
For example, there is a blank line above ^.
But on a project page you have to add two blank lines. Feature or bug?
- #6
bolcov Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:34:18y