Help:Templates and complex editing

MediaWiki supports using templates and HTML coding for more complex content and design solutions

Understanding templates

MediaWiki templates are actually wiki pages that are included in other pages, while enabling the change of specific parameters.

Templates are mostly used in the Template name space (i.e. the page name will be Template:Template_name) and included by clicking Insert > Template in the editor or by typing in the source editor:

{{template name|parameter name=paremeter information}}

This will include the template Template_name in the page edited.

How to build templates?

For understanding better wiki templating visit MediaWiki documentation:

• Templates - how to build and use templates
• Template data - assisting users to add the right information to templates

HTML coding

You can add certain HTML tags to your pages or templates. These are some of the allowed tags:

• Text formatting tags: 'b', 'i', 'u', 'big', 'small', 'h1-6', 'cite', 'code', 's', 'strike', 'strong', 'center'.
• Layout tags: 'div', 'blockquote', 'ol', 'ul', 'table', 'p', 'span'.

Full list of permitted tags can be found here.

Designing

You can add styling to HTML tags inline or by adding CSS to templates. See here a documentation on template styling.

Note that there are few specific CSS rules that are not permitted for security reasons, like image background.

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