Bikini uses Creole syntax to edit page contents. Here you will find several syntax elements, more are available on the official Creole documentation.

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== Simple text formatting

Create a paragraph by ending it with one or more blank lines. Also it’s easy to write //Italic text// and **bold text**. A line break ↵
is forced with two consecutive back-slashes \\.

== Links

Internal links are just put between double square brackets [[ like this is link to the [[FrontPage]].

You can associate a clickable text to a link by writing its address and the text between double square brackets [[, separated by a pipe character |:

[[http://example.org/|link to example.org]]

A free standing web address will be automatically linked, e.g.: http://example.org/.

== Headings

One equal sign = as title prefix make a first level heading, which is typically reserved for page title. Also, two == and three === consecutive equal signs make a second and third level heading respectively. Actually in Bikini up to three levels of heading are styled.

== Lists

An unordered list is made of a series of text items each prefixed by an asterisk *:

• * So, this is the first item;
• * and this is the second one.

Use a hash mark # instead of an asterisk to make ordered lists. Notice that nested lists are also possible:

1. # So, this is the first item;
   1. ## first item in nested list;
      1. ### first item in second nested list;
2. # and this is the second one.

Four hyphens will make a horizontal rule, which will be placed after this line of text.

== Images

An image address between double braces {{ defines an image. An optional alt text can be added by separating the address with a pipe character |:

{{./i/sample.jpg|Beach at Barbados, July 2004}} 

↑ Photo from Flickr by Gusdiaz.

Note: the alt text will appear if specified image could not be loaded.

== Preformatted sections

Three braces {{{ blocks allow to specify preformatted sections. Bikini will style those with a monospaced font and whitespace characters will be preserved. No further Creole syntax processing is performed on enclosed text.

This preformatted text 
will appear **as-is**.

== What about the plain ol’ HTML code?

All HTML code is escaped thus it will appear as such on the page, like this <table> element.

== Limitations

Please keep in mind that Bikini currently has full support for Creole 1.0 syntax except optional additions like inlines styles for superscript, subscript, etc.