User:Dogears/code snips and style

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Lincoln, Abraham; Grant, U. S.; & Davis, Jefferson (1861). Resolving Family Differences Peacefully (3rd ed.). Gettysburg: Printing Press. ISBN 0-12-345678-9.

Sequence of footers

See also
Notes
References
External links

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

One space before wiki code (or any text) puts it in a teletype box, 
but not html or brackets - (prompt) command parameter-name

Image parameters
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

<center>Centered text</center>

Template:En icon
Template:It icon

{{en icon}}<br />
{{it icon}}

List
List

Numbered
List

word: definition

* List
* List
# Numbered
# List
; word : definition

as above

so below

as above
----
so below

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

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

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

Linking directly to an image without displaying it: [[media:wiki.png|Image of the jigsaw globe logo]]

Simple columns

header

data data data

data data data data data data

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
|-                  <!--start column-->
|header
data
data
data
|                  <!--column separator with no header text-->
data
data
data
data
data
data
|-
|}

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

Also written

Aerosol artists

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Street Art and Post-Graffiti artists

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But not

Aerosol artists fghj ghfjfjh gjkjkghkjgk

Street Art and Post-Graffiti artists ghjkkhgjkgh khgj hfjkghkjgk