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CSS selectors[edit] The CSS selectors, expressed in terms of elements, classes and id's, relevant for the style of the page body include the following. As far as possible, examples are given, which show the result for the current style settings: :link — links — example: Help:Index ; default: help:index (See a vs :link)
The website HTML, generated Wikipedia content and the JavaScripts of Wikipedia define hundreds of classes and IDs. The use of most of them is not clearly explained or described anywhere. Most of these classes and IDs are used for styling using CSS and identify parts of the page that this styling should apply to.
H:CSS. WP:CSS. Cascading Style Sheets allows for flexible formatting of a page. They should be used instead of tables for non-tabular content whenever possible, because they can be manipulated by the reader or overridden by an author if your CSS is embedded in another page via a template .
Full details can be found in Help:Template, Wikipedia:Templates and m:Help:Advanced templates . A template is a Wikipedia page created to be included in other pages. It usually contains repetitive material that may need to show up on multiple articles or pages, often with customizable input. Templates sometimes use MediaWiki parser functions ...
colbegin and colend[edit] To create columns in an article one may use { { colbegin }} and { { colend }}. Note that this is not supported by Internet Explorer version 9 and below or Opera version 11 and below — see { { Div col }} for details. This example uses { { lorem }} to generate placeholder text. produces: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ...
Help:Markup validation. The W3C Markup Validation Service lets editors check web pages for conformance to HTML and XHTML standards. It is helpful for catching minor problems such as duplicate section names or citation IDs. Although most major browsers will tolerate many of the errors, and will display a document successfully even if it contains ...
HTML. HyperText Markup Language ( HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It defines the content and structure of web content. It is often assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript .
Help:HTML in wikitext#Basic has a section on <br> and variants. Please see Help talk:Line-break handling#Let us ignore syntax highlighters that do not accept <br>. It is a detailed discussion with participation from editors, developers, admins, etc.. Most people in that thread want <br> used, not <br />.