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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	`⇒ ⇐ &dArr; &uArr; ⇔ → ↓ ↑ ← ↔`	⇒ ⇐ ⇓ ⇑ ⇔ → ↓ ↑ ← ↔
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

Table cells can be formatted

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Very long header
!Very long header
!Very long header
|-
|align="left"|left
|align="center"|center
|align="right"|right
|}

Very long header	Very long header	Very long header
left	center	right