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_Sigh_ please help, I have exhausted all my tactics to get this to work. This is what I want basically: a lyrics template that will list lyrics by line properly... that is of course, impossible to do with mediawiki it seems! D:

My lyrics page: http://siouxsie.wikia.com/wiki/Fall_from_Grace

And my template: http://siouxsie.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Lyrics

To be able to keep them italics I had to use the apostrophes as with all wiki pages. That's not much of an issue except it wouldn't work at all if it wasn't for the  not sure why. Unfortunately as you can see, I don't get  anywhere there. How can I send a message, that all lines need a  at the end?

I read these pages but not sure what to do:


 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Poem
 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Poem/Archive#Using_poem_in_a_template

Also added some lines to Wikia.css tried using  as well, not a difference that I could see...

Ok so how the heck do they do it in Lyric wiki? I am so frustrated o_0 http://lyrics.wikia.com/Siouxsie_And_The_Banshees%3AFall_from_Grace

Thanks --Liliana (my talk). 18:54, July 12, 2012 (UTC) tag seems to be needed, unless I misunderstand your problem. --  Random Time  19:04, July 12, 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not seeing the problem. On the page you linked the lyrics are displaying properly with the correct line breaks. No
 * I think I fixed it by then, RT. 19:05, July 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * Randomtime take a look now and you will see what I meant :)


 * TK-999 you're amazing, I've been looking for how to do this for years, except I've been working around it on all my wikis. May I ask exactly what did it? Did the Wikia.css play a role or should I just erase the coding (if it is unnecessary)?  Thank you so much!!! --Liliana (my talk). 21:34, July 12, 2012 (UTC)
 * Nope, I just set  on the style attribute to make it preserve space (see how). Plus, I removed some attributes unsupported in HTML 5. 09:44, July 13, 2012 (UTC)