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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

&rArr; &lArr; &dArr; &uArr; &hArr; &rarr; &darr; &uarr; &larr; &harr;

⇒ ⇐ ⇓ ⇑ ⇔ → ↓ ↑ ← ↔

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