Help:Editing/Advanced
This is the Advanced Editing tutorial. Here you will learn how to do things that are beyond the scope of a beginner. Below, you'll find various advanced wiki markup tricks arranged by category.
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Links
Internal Links
Anchors
Anchors are hyperlinks that link to parts within a page. Each wiki page automatically generates anchors for the top of the page and for each section. The general way to do this is as follows:
[[#anchor|anchor description]]
where "anchor" could be "top" or any "section" of your page, and the anchor description is optional. For example, to link to the top of this page, use the code
[[#top|link to top of page]]
which produces link to top of page.
Need more help with hyperlinks? Click here to go to the back to the Hyperlinks section of the Basic Editing tutorial or click to go to the MediaWiki help page on links
Quote Boxes
To add a quote box, use the following.
Direct quote goes here.
{{Quote box
|title = Quote Title Goes Here
|quote = Direct quote goes here.
|source = -- source for the quote goes here
|align = center
|width = 50%
|quoted = yes
}}
Small text
To lower the font size (this small), do this:
<SMALL>text here will be small</SMALL>
Superscript
To make text superscript (which looks like this), do this:
<SUP>text here will be superscript</SUP>
Highlighting
To highlight text, use the following:
<span style="background:#d7f5ff">highlighted text here</span>
For more colors, go here.
Colorizing text
To colorize text, do this:
<SPAN STYLE="COLOR:#ff0000">text here will be red</SPAN>
For more colors, go here.
Infobox
This is how to make an infobox for your article.
{{Infobox
| bodystyle = float:right; valign:top;
| title = Dr. Peter Kutter
| titlestyle =
| image = [[Image:Dr-Kutter.jpg|175px]]
| imagestyle =
| caption = Caught in the act (2010)
| captionstyle =
| headerstyle = background:#d2d2d2;
| labelstyle = background:#d2d2d2;
| datastyle =
| header1 = Creator of:
| data2 = [[Kutter's Clinic]]
| header3 = Benefactors:
| data4 = [[Yvonne Snippit]]
| data5 = [[Boris Mandrake]]
| data6 = [[Miss Eunice Ewe]]
| data7 = [[Stephen Lewis]]
| belowstyle = background:#d2d2d2;
| below =
}}
Notice the numbers after the header and data labels. These numbers must never repeat. For example; if you have header1 and data1 it will not work, you need header1 and data2.
The above table will create the following infobox (below and to the right):
|
Caught in the act (2010) | |
| Creator of: | |
|---|---|
| Kutter's Clinic | |
| Benefactors: | |
| Yvonne Snippit | |
| Boris Mandrake | |
| Miss Eunice Ewe | |
| Stephen Lewis |
Stop/Reset wrapping
Sometimes wrapping will create layout issues. To fix this, place the following directly above/before the problem text/item:
<BR CLEAR="all">
Banners
To learn how to add banners, Go Here.
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