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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
Use `__TOC__` to control the location of the Table Of Content. This is particularly handy when there are some texts before the first heading in a page, and you want the TOC to appear first.

Frequently Used

Description	You type	You get
anywhere
Arrows entities	`⇒ ⇐ &dArr; &uArr; ⇔ → ↓ ↑ ← ↔`	⇒ ⇐ ⇓ ⇑ ⇔ → ↓ ↑ ← ↔
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` tag	`Change the <font color="red">font color</font>` `Change the <font size="3">font size</font>` `Change the <font face="verdana">font face</font>`	Change the font color Change the font size Change the font face

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 (see Table):

{| 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