User:Dogears/code snips and style

Notepad of style notes and code snippets culled from community pages

Style notes

• Cite your sources - Wikipedia a reliable source

• Share the External Links wwith database

 {{Commons|select category}}
* {{Web reference
 | URL=http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmatch.htm
 | title = The History of Matches 
 | work = Inventors.about.com
 | date = November 11 | year = 2005
 }}

• Link to your article from other articles

Code snippets

(prompt) command parameter-name 

Image:picture.jpg|120px|right/left/none|thumb|Blah blah caption

What it looks like	What you type
When there is a need for separating a block of text the blockquote command will indent both margins when needed instead of the left margin only as the colon does. This is useful for (as the name says) inserting blocks of quoted (and cited) text.	<blockquote> The '''blockquote''' command will indent both margins when needed instead of the left margin only as the colon does. </blockquote>

Centered text.

• List
• List

1. Numbered
2. List

word

definition

as above

---

so below

San Francisco also has public transportation. (ing ending blended into link for public "transport"- Preferred over the pipe)

Economics#See also is a link to a section within another page.

#Links and URLs is a link to a section on the current page.

#example is a link to an anchor that was created using

an id attribute

Automatically hide stuff in parentheses: kingdom.

Linking directly to an image without displaying it: Image of the jigsaw globe logo

Using the div tag to separate images from text (note that this may allow images to cover text): Example:

Place images here

Multicolumns

Aerosol artists oh yea

Street Art and Post-Graffiti artists do it again