Help:Table of Contents
A table of contents lists all the headers included on a page. Each link in a table of contents can be clicked to automatically scroll down to that section.
To make headers, enclose the title of them in =
symbols. Headers can have up to 6 degrees of importance, determined by how many =
symbols the title is wrapped in. See the TOC on this page:
Header 1[edit source]
A very large header. Use these sparingly, as they're about the size of the page title at the top.
Header 2[edit source]
Standard header.
Header 3[edit source]
Standard subsection.
Header 4[edit source]
If you still want to divide a page up further, go down to four =
symbols.
Header 5[edit source]
Headers with more than four =
symbols are not common because by default they are stylized identically to ones with four. This could be changed in the future however.
Header 6[edit source]
This is the lowest headers can go. This corresponds exactly with the HTML tags <h1>
, <h2>
, <h3>
, <h4>
, <h5>
, and <h6>
.
=Header 7=[edit source]
Notice how the table of contents counts this header as a level 6 one, and does not parse the 7th pair of =
symbols. In the extremely rare case that you need to make a level 7 header, consider splitting up the page by the level 1 headers.
Tip: Don't add steps or step numbers into your headers! There is an option in Special:Preferences that automatically puts numbers on headers for readers, and it would just look silly.
See Also[edit source]
- Help:Templates - This page has documentation of some methods of manipulating the appearance of a table of contents.