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might as well start a section on tables *grumbles*
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Underlining text is not as convenient; it requires you to fall back to raw HTML markup:<br /> | Underlining text is not as convenient; it requires you to fall back to raw HTML markup:<br /> | ||
<code><nowiki><u>Here's the underline tag</u></nowiki></code> gives you <u>Here's the underline tag</u>. | <code><nowiki><u>Here's the underline tag</u></nowiki></code> gives you <u>Here's the underline tag</u>. | ||
===Monospace and unformatted text=== | ===Monospace and unformatted text=== | ||
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Templates are not a special kind of wiki page; they're simply a term that we use to refer to pages that are meant to be transcluded. Templates usually provide a standardized format for something like a [[:Template:Chapters|table]], or else they supply a standard [[:Template:Cleanup|header]] or [[:Template:OBD_File_Footer|footer]]. You should familiarize yourself with the templates if you plan to do a decent amount of editing; they are not only time-savers, they also help editors make their edits fit in with OniGalore standards, and make it easier to change large amounts of wiki text at once. | Templates are not a special kind of wiki page; they're simply a term that we use to refer to pages that are meant to be transcluded. Templates usually provide a standardized format for something like a [[:Template:Chapters|table]], or else they supply a standard [[:Template:Cleanup|header]] or [[:Template:OBD_File_Footer|footer]]. You should familiarize yourself with the templates if you plan to do a decent amount of editing; they are not only time-savers, they also help editors make their edits fit in with OniGalore standards, and make it easier to change large amounts of wiki text at once. | ||
==Tables== | |||
MediaWiki provides simple markup for creating HTML tables that avoids the need to create lots of <code><nowiki><tr></nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki><td></nowiki></code> tags, though the results are also somewhat more limited than a pure HTML table. To open a table simply write <code><nowiki>{|</nowiki></code>, optionally declare column names with <code><nowiki>!</nowiki></code>, then declare new rows with <code><nowiki>|-</nowiki></code> and new cells within a row with <code><nowiki>|</nowiki></code>. This markup… | |||
<pre> | |||
{| | |||
!Column 1 | |||
!Column 2 | |||
|- | |||
|R1C1 | |||
|R1C2 | |||
|- | |||
|R2C1 | |||
|R2C2 | |||
|}</pre> | |||
…produces this table: | |||
{| | |||
!Column 1 | |||
!Column 2 | |||
|- | |||
|R1C1 | |||
|R1C2 | |||
|- | |||
|R2C1 | |||
|R2C2 | |||
|} | |||
Normally we apply the class "wikitable" to a table to give it borders and make it look pretty with <code>{| class="wikitable"</code>, though you can do a lot of manual styling for almost any custom look you want (see {{SectionLink||Further help}} to read more about tables). | |||
To make the table a fixed width, add this CSS styling to the first line: <code>{| style="width:500px;"</code>. You can also use a percentage such as <code>width:50%;</code>. To center the table on the page, use <code>{| style="margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"</code>. | |||
For more advanced table markup, see below. | |||
==Advanced tricks== | ==Advanced tricks== | ||
Some of these "tricks" are very simple in practice, but hard to remember. This is basically a list of bookmarks to helpful examples | Some of these "tricks" are very simple in practice, but hard to remember. This is basically a list of bookmarks to helpful examples around the wiki: | ||
*Alphabetic footnotes: [[Quotes/Manual]] | *Alphabetic footnotes: [[Quotes/Manual]] | ||
*Indenting wrapped text: [[Walkthrough]] | *Indenting wrapped text: [[Walkthrough]] | ||
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**Advanced styling: [[Template:OBD File Header]] | **Advanced styling: [[Template:OBD File Header]] | ||
**Aesthetic designs: [[Template:PoliciesSidebox]], [[Anniversary Edition]] | **Aesthetic designs: [[Template:PoliciesSidebox]], [[Anniversary Edition]] | ||
**Hideable columns: [[OBD:Versions]] | **Hideable columns: [[OBD:Versions]] | ||
**Multipart tables: [[Rights]] | **Multipart tables: [[Rights]] | ||