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Extended the ingress + Touched up mention of cascading style sheets + Link to CSS 2.1 standard
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'''Templates''' are pages that can contain complex pieces of wiki markup that can be reused on other pages with relative ease. | '''Templates''' are pages that can contain complex pieces of wiki markup that can be reused on other pages with relative ease. On this help page we will go through what a template is, how to find and use them and editing and creating templates. Finally we will have a quick look on some of the things that can be used in more advanced templates. | ||
== Basics == | == Basics == | ||
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;HTML: It might seem a bit funny to mention it, but sometimes you forget that you can use (some) html tags in a MediaWiki wiki. | ;HTML: It might seem a bit funny to mention it, but sometimes you forget that you can use (some) html tags in a MediaWiki wiki. | ||
;Cascading style sheets: | ;Cascading style sheets: Like magic words and parser functions can do magic for the functionality of a template CSS can do magic for its appearance. | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
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** [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words Help:Magic words] | ** [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words Help:Magic words] | ||
** [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions Help:Extension:ParserFunctions] | ** [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions Help:Extension:ParserFunctions] | ||
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/ Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Specification] | |||
[[Category:Help]] | [[Category:Help]] | ||