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Style & formatting

Wikitext examples | Reference card | HTML in wikitext | List | Table | Sorting | CSS

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Hint and Tips

Use <div style="padding-left:...;"> to indend easily a pre, source or blockquote block: * Look at my indented block: <div style="padding-left:2em;"><pre> Some PRE text ... some more ... Let's finish here </pre></div>

Look at my indented block: Some PRE text ... some more ... Let's finish here

Frequently Used

Description	You type	You get
anywhere
Arrows entities	⇒ ⇐ ⇓ ⇑ ⇔ → ↓ ↑ ← ↔	⇒ ⇐ ⇓ ⇑ ⇔ → ↓ ↑ ← ↔
Space	 
only at the beginning of the line
Definition list	;Definition :item 1 :item 2	Definition item 1 item 2

HTML Tags

Description	You type	You get
Font color	You can use <font color="red">colors</font>	You can use colors

Tables

Basic syntax for table is

{| [opt-table-attr] 
|- [opt-line-attr]
|[opt-cell-attr |]Orange
|[opt-cell-attr |]Apple
|- [opt-line-attr
|[opt-cell-attr |]
|[opt-cell-attr |]Pie
|- [opt-line-attr
|[opt-cell-attr |]Butter |[opt-cell-attr]| Ice cream 
|}

Table can be easily formatted using templates like: {| {{Prettytable}} |- |{{Hl2}}|First |Second |- |Third |{{Hl2}}|Fourth |}	First Second Third Fourth
Or better yet, using CSS (eg. see MediaWiki:Common.css) class wikitable {| class="wikitable" |- !First |Second |- |Third !Fourth |}	First Second Third Fourth
Cell content can be formatted for each cell individually or for all cells on a same row {| class="wikitable" |- !Very long header !Very long header !Very long header |- |align="left"|left |align="center"|center |align="right"|right |- align="center" |center |center |center |} |}	Very long header Very long header Very long header left center right center center center