User:Dogears/code snips and style

Notepad of style notes and code snippets culled from community pages

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(UK)

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  • United Kingdom
  • Template:Uk icon
  • Word^{{ |UK}} ???

Style notes

Reliable source

• 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

1. See also
2. Notes
3. References
4. External links

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 {{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
 }}

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Code snippets

• Historic preservation

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. (tion ending blended into link)	San Francisco also has [[public transport]]ation. (tion ending blended into link)
Linking directly to an image without displaying it: Image of the jigsaw globe logo or link to description page	Linking directly to an image without displaying it: [[media:wiki.png|Image of the jigsaw globe logo]] [[:Image:wiki.png|or link to description page]]
design.[1] ^ Biography, 9 November 2005.	design.{{ref|rheumatism}} # {{note|name}} Biography [[9 November]] [[2005]].
Simple columns Header1 data data data Header2 data data data Header3 data data data data data data	{| border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" |- |valign="top"|'''Header1''' data data data | '''Header2''' data data data | '''Header3''' * 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 on a (sister site) 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 fghj ghfjfjh gjkjkghkjgk

Street Art and Post-Graffiti artists ghjkkhgjkgh khgj hfjkghkjgk

But not

Aerosol artists fghj ghfjfjh gjkjkghkjgk

Street Art and Post-Graffiti artists ghjkkhgjkgh khgj hfjkghkjgk