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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>
|
Some PRE text ... some more ... Let's finish here |
Frequently Used
| Description | You type | You get |
| anywhere | ||
| Arrows entities |
⇒ ⇐ ⇓ ⇑ ⇔ → ↓ ↑ ← ↔ |
⇒ ⇐ ⇓ ⇑ ⇔ → ↓ ↑ ← ↔ |
| Space |
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| only at the beginning of the line | ||
| Definition list |
;Definition |
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HTML Tags
| Description | You type | You get |
| font tag | Change the <font color="red">font color</font> Change the <font size="3">font size</font> |
Change the font color Change the font size |
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
|}
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Or better yet, using CSS (eg. see MediaWiki:Common.css) class wikitable (see Table):
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!First
|Second
|-
|Third
!Fourth
|}
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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
|}
|}
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