User blog:NoStringsOnJay/Basic Wikitext and CSS

Here, I'm going to make a record of WikiText and CSS that I use for My Wikia.

=WikiText (HTML and other things)=

Drop-Down Table
This becomes:

Making an infobox template
Put this in the template page, obviously putting in your desired information fields:  Information

To use this infobox
example input: {{"Name of Template"
 * image = Example.jpg
 * Info 1 = First information

Main Page Column Tags


content in the left column





content in the right column



Tab View
Like a Tabber, but shows a whole page

PAGE1|TITLE PAGE2|TITLE PAGE3|TITLE

Helping out template

 * -|Helping Out=

Helping out
Welcome to the /* Insert Wiki name here */ Wiki! Feel free to join us and contribute to this wiki. Everyone is free to create a new page or edit any existing one.

Questions about wiki editing should be directed towards /* Insert Admin name here */. width=24 break=no buttonlabel=Create new page
 * New to wikis? Check out our help page library and out policies and guidelines.
 * Not sure where to start? Our stub articles always need expansion.
 * Spotted some vandalism? Report it [[Message Wall:/* Insert Admin name here */|/* Insert Admin name here */].
 * Browse wiki activity in Recent Changes.
 * -|Forums=
 * -|Join Chat=

Chat
Chat is a feature that allows near-instantaneous communication between users on a wikia. Anybody with a Wikia account can join chat by clicking the "Join the Chat" or "Start a Chat" button below.

Private messaging
Private messages are conversations between you and one other user. If you are in a private message room with someone, you have the ability to stop receiving their private messages by selecting "block private messages" in their username menu. This setting is permanent and Wikia-wide until you select "Allow private messages" from their menu in the general chat room.

"Me" action
A feature in chat, borrowed from IRC, is the "/me" action. If a user (for example: YourName) preceded an entry in chat with "/me", it would render specially:

would appear as:
 *  * YourName is going to the movies.

Links
Links work exactly the same in Chat as they do in the editor. For example, typing Special:Forum in Community Central Chat results in Special:Forum - the main forum page of Community Central.

You can make shorter links to other wikias by using an interwiki link. For example, typing w:c:starwars in Chat results in w:c:starwars - an easy way to link to Wookieepedia (http://starwars.wikia.com).

You can also link to specific pages using this method. Typing w:c:avatar:Aang in Chat results in a link to the Aang page on Avatar Wiki (http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Aang).


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 * -|Manual of Style=

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=CSS (the design of a Wikia)=