Text Formatting Notation Help - Issues

Headings

To create a header, place "hn. " at the start of the line (where n can be a number from 1-6).

Notation	Comment
`h1. Biggest heading`	Biggest heading
`h2. Bigger heading`	Bigger heading
`h3. Big heading`	Big heading
`h4. Normal heading`	Normal heading
`h5. Small heading`	Small heading
`h6. Smallest heading`	Smallest heading

Text Effects

Text effects are used to change the formatting of words and sentences.

Notation	Comment
`strong`	Makes text strong.
`_emphasis_`	Makes text emphasis.
`??citation??`	Makes text in citation.
`-strikethrough-`	Makes text as ~~strikethrough~~.
`+inserted+`	Makes text as inserted.
`^superscript^`	Makes text in ^superscript.
`~subscript~`	Makes text in _subscript.
`{{monospaced}}`	Makes text as `monospaced`.
`bq. Some block quoted text`	To make an entire paragraph into a block quotation, place "bq. " before it. Example: Some block quoted text
`{quote} here is quotable content to be quoted {quote}`	Quote a block of text that's longer than one paragraph. Example: here is quotable content to be quoted
`{color:red} look ma, red text! {color}`	Changes the color of a block of text. Example: look ma, red text!

Text Breaks

Most of the time, explicit paragraph breaks are not required - The wiki renderer will be able to paginate your paragraphs properly.

Notation	Comment
`(empty line)`	Produces a new paragraph
`\\`	Creates a line break. Not often needed, most of the time the wiki renderer will guess new lines for you appropriately.
`----`	Creates a horizontal ruler.
`---`	Produces — symbol.
`--`	Produces – symbol.

Links

Learning how to create links quickly is important.

Notation	Comment
`[#anchor] [^attachment.ext]`	Creates an internal hyperlink to the specified anchor or attachment. Appending the '#' sign followed by an anchor name will lead into a specific bookmarked point of the desired page. Having the '^' followed by the name of an attachment will lead into a link to the attachment of the current issue.
`[http://jira.atlassian.com] [Atlassian\|http://atlassian.com]`	Creates a link to an external resource, special characters that come after the URL and are not part of it must be separated with a space. The [] around external links are optional in the case you do not want to use any alias for the link. Examples: http://jira.atlassian.com Atlassian
`[mailto:legendaryservice@atlassian.com]`	Creates a link to an email address, complete with mail icon. Example: legendaryservice@atlassian.com
`[file:///c:/temp/foo.txt] [file:///z:/file/on/network/share.txt]`	Creates a download link to a file on your computer or on a network share that you have mapped to a drive. To access the file, you must right click on the link and choose "Save Target As". By default, this only works on Internet Explorer but can also be enabled in Firefox (see docs).
`{anchor:anchorname}`	Creates a bookmark anchor inside the page. You can then create links directly to that anchor. So the link [My Page#here] will link to wherever in "My Page" there is an {anchor:here} macro, and the link [#there] will link to wherever in the current page there is an {anchor:there} macro.
`[~accountid:12345-6seven89-10-eleven-12]`	Creates a link to the user profile page of a particular user, with a user icon and the user's name.
[pagetitle] or [spacekey:pagetitle]	Creates a link to the specified page in the desired space (or the confluence space associated with this JIRA project if you dont specify any space).

Lists

Lists allow you to present information as a series of ordered items.

Notation	Comment
`* some * bullet indented bullets * points`	A bulleted list (must be in first column). Use more (**) for deeper indentations. Example: some bullet indented bullets points
`- different - bullet - types`	A list item (with -), several lines create a single list. Example: different bullet types
`# a # numbered # list`	A numbered list (must be in first column). Use more (##, ###) for deeper indentations. Example: a numbered list
`# a # numbered #* with #* nested #* bullet # list` `* a * bulleted # with # nested # numbered list`	You can even go with any kind of mixed nested lists Example: a numbered with nested bullet list Example: a bulleted with nested numbered list

Images

Images can be embedded into a wiki renderable field from attached files or remote sources.

Notation Comment

!http://www.host.com/image.gif!
or
!attached-image.gif!

Inserts an image into the page.

If a fully qualified URL is given the image will be displayed from the remote source, otherwise an attached image file is displayed.

!image.jpg|thumbnail!

Insert a thumbnail of the image into the page (only works with images that are attached to the page).

!image.gif|align=right, vspace=4!

For any image, you can also specify attributes of the image tag as a comma separated list of name=value pairs like so.

Attachments

Some attachments of a specific type can be embedded into a wiki renderable field from attached files.

Notation Comment

!quicktime.mov!
!spaceKey:pageTitle^attachment.mov!
!quicktime.mov|width=300,height=400!
!media.wmv|id=media!

Embeds an object in a page, taking in a comma-separated of properties.

Default supported formats:

Flash (.swf)
Quicktime movies (.mov)
Windows Media (.wma, .wmv)
Real Media (.rm, .ram)
MP3 files (.mp3)

Other types of files can be used, but may require the specification of the "classid", "codebase" and "pluginspage" properties in order to be recognized by web browsers.

Common properties are:

width - the width of the media file
height - the height of the media file
id - the ID assigned to the embedded object

Due to security issues, files located on remote servers are not permitted Styling
By default, each embedded object is wrapped in a "div" tag. If you wish to style the div and its contents, override the "embeddedObject" CSS class. Specifying an ID as a property also allows you to style different embedded objects differently. CSS class names in the format "embeddedObject-ID" are used.

Tables

Tables allow you to organize content in a rows and columns, with a header row if required.

Notation Comment

||heading 1||heading 2||heading 3||
|col A1|col A2|col A3|
|col B1|col B2|col B3|

Makes a table. Use double bars for a table heading row.

The code given here produces a table that looks like:

heading 1	heading 2	heading 3
col A1	col A2	col A3
col B1	col B2	col B3

Advanced Formatting

More advanced text formatting.

Notation Comment

{noformat}
preformatted piece of text
 so *no* further _formatting_ is done here
{noformat}

Makes a preformatted block of text with no syntax highlighting. All the optional parameters of {panel} macro are valid for {noformat} too.

nopanel: Embraces a block of text within a fully customizable panel. The optional parameters you can define are the following ones:

Example:

preformatted piece of text so *no* further _formatting_ is done here

{panel}
Some text
{panel}

{panel:title=My Title}
Some text with a title
{panel}

{panel:title=My Title|borderStyle=dashed|borderColor=#ccc|titleBGColor=#F7D6C1|bgColor=#FFFFCE}
a block of text surrounded with a *panel*
yet _another_ line
{panel}

Embraces a block of text within a fully customizable panel. The optional parameters you can define are the following ones:

title: Title of the panel
borderStyle: The style of the border this panel uses (solid, dashed and other valid CSS border styles)
borderColor: The color of the border this panel uses
borderWidth: The width of the border this panel uses
bgColor: The background color of this panel
titleBGColor: The background color of the title section of this panel

Example:

My Title

a block of text surrounded with a panel
yet another line

{code:title=Bar.java|borderStyle=solid}
// Some comments here
public String getFoo()
{
    return foo;
}
{code}

{code:xml}
    <test>
        <another tag="attribute"/>
    </test>
{code}

Makes a preformatted block of code with syntax highlighting. All the optional parameters of {panel} macro are valid for {code} too. The default language is Java but you can specify others too, including ActionScript, Ada, AppleScript, bash, C, C#, C++, CSS, Erlang, Go, Groovy, Haskell, HTML, JavaScript, JSON, Lua, Nyan, Objc, Perl, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Scala, SQL, Swift, VisualBasic, XML and YAML.

Example:

Bar.java

// Some comments here
public String getFoo()
{
    return foo;
}

<test>
    <another tag="attribute"/>
</test>

Misc

Various other syntax highlighting capabilities.

Notation Comment

\X

Escape special character X (i.e. {)

:)

:(

etc

Graphical emoticons (smileys).

Notation	:)	:(	:P	:D	;)	(y)	(n)	(i)	(/)	(x)	(!)
Image

Notation	(+)	(-)	(?)	(on)	(off)	(*)	(*r)	(*g)	(*b)	(*y)	(flag)
Image

Notation	(flagoff)
Image

Headings

Biggest heading

Bigger heading

Big heading

Normal heading

Small heading

Smallest heading

Text Effects

Text Breaks

Links

Lists

Images

Attachments

Tables

Advanced Formatting

Misc