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Home Templates and tips for editing wikipedia

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Fonts

Typewriter font, computer code font

A typewriter font is sometimes used for technical terms and computer code.

typewriter

renders as

typewriter

<code>computer code</code>.

renders as

computer code

Small caps

<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Text</span>

renders as

Text

Small text

This is to demonstrate <small>small text</small> template.

renders as

This is to demonstrate small text template.

Big text

This is to demonstrate <big>big text</big> template.

renders as

This is to demonstrate big text template.

Coloured text

{{color|blue|colour}}

renders as

colour

Strike out

<strike>strike out deleted material</strike>

Underline

<u>underline new material</u>

Centred text

<center>text</center

Highlighting in talk pages

{{Font color||yellow|highlight}}

highlight

Abbreviations

{{H:title|Doctor|Dr}}

renders as

Dr

Extra parameters: |link=yes/no (defaults to "no")|dotted=yes/no (defaults to "yes")
(or)

{{abbr|Dr|Doctor}} (or) <abbr title="Doctor">Dr</abbr>

Breaking and non-breaking words or lines

Word break

<wbr>

Line break

<br>

A non-breaking space

  or {{nowrap}} or  {{nowrap begin}} + {{nowrap end}} or {{spaces|N}}

A non-breaking hyphen

‑

Special symbols

Add Ampersand (&)

"&" - renders "&"

Add "<"

<

Add a pipeline (|)

To show a visible pipe, use

<nowiki>|</nowiki> or &#124;

Maintain spacing and breaking in a quote or poem

<poem>
Line1
  Line2
Line3
  Line4
</poem>

renders as

Line1
  Line2
Line3
  Line4

Creating tables

Template	Rendered as
{| |+ caption |- |cell 11||cell 12 |- |cell 21||cell 22 |}	caption cell 11 cell 12 cell 21 cell 22
{| border="1" |+ caption |- |cell 11 first cell ||cell 12 second cell |- |cell 21||cell 22 |}	caption cell 11 cell 12 cell 21 cell 22
{| border="1" |+ caption |- |cell 11 first cell ||cell 12 second cell |- |align=right|cell 21||align=left|cell 22 |}	caption cell 11 first cell cell 12 second cell cell 21 cell 22
A row of column headings is identified by using "! scope="col" |" instead of "|", and using "!! scope="col" |" instead of "||". To avoid boldening, add "|" before "! scope="col"" {| border="1" |+ caption |- |! scope="col" | Heading 1 |! scope="col" |Heading 2 |- |cell 11||cell 12 |- |cell 21||cell 22 |}	caption Heading 1 Heading 2 cell 11 cell 12 cell 21 cell 22
For row heading, " scope="row"&#124 " instead of "&#124". {| border="1" |+ caption |- ! scope="col" | Column Heading 1 ! scope="col" | Column Heading 2 ! scope="col" | Column Heading 3 |- ! scope="row" | Row heading1 |cell 12||cell 13 |- ! scope="row" | Row heading2 |cell 22||cell 23 |}	caption Column Heading 1 Column Heading 2 Column Heading 3 Row heading1 cell 12 cell 13 Row heading2 cell 22 cell 23
If you want narrow one-pixel wide borders around all the cells use this in the top line of the table, use " {| border="1" style="border-collapse:collapse;" " {| border="1" style="border-collapse:collapse;" |+ caption |- ! scope="col" | Column Heading 1 ! scope="col" | Column Heading 2 ! scope="col" | Column Heading 3 |- ! scope="row" | Row heading1 |cell 12||cell 13 |- ! scope="row" | Row heading2 |cell 22||cell 23 |}	caption Column Heading 1 Column Heading 2 Column Heading 3 Row heading1 cell 12 cell 13 Row heading2 cell 22 cell 23
Wikitable {| border="1" class="wikitable" |+ caption ! Column Heading 1 ! Column Heading 2 ! Column Heading 3 |- ! Row heading1 |cell 12||cell 13 |- ! Row heading2 |cell 22||cell 23 |} More parameters: {|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; width:200px; height:200px;" border="1"  Parameters for column heading: ! width="140"| Column heading 1	caption Column Heading 1  Column Heading 2 Column Heading 3 Row heading1 cell 12 cell 13 Row heading2 cell 22 cell 23

TIPS:

1. For empty cells, use the non-breaking space &nbsp; as content to ensure that the cells are displayed.
2. For nested tables (tables within a table), see Nested tables.