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• Wiki markup here
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Help with colours:

• choosing colors
• color formatting

Inserting a Table of contents (TOC)

For each page with more than three headings, a table of contents (TOC) is automatically generated from the section headings, unless:

__NOTOC__ is added to the top or bottom of the page

__NOEDITSECTION__ is also added if the edit links for each section are not required

If a page has fewer than four headings then

__TOC__ is placed where the TOC is required

To align the TOC to the right use:

<div style="float:right;">__TOC__</div>

To insert a TOC with no numbers use:

{{Toc right no-numbers}}

Formatting Text

Centering text

Center text like this:

<div class="center">Center text like this</div>

New un-spaced lines

New lines without spaces between them
have the following code
placed at the end of them

New lines without spaces between them<br />
have the following code<br />
placed at the end of them

New lines that are indented

and have no spaces between them

begin with a colon

:New lines that are indented
:and have no spaces between them
:begin with a colon:

Deleted text

deleted text

<del>deleted text</del>

Underlined text

underlined text

<u>underlined text</u>

Italic text

Italic text

''Italic text''

Bold text

Bold text

'''Bold text'''

or

Alternate coding: Bold text

<span style="font-weight: bold;">Bold text</span>

Large text

Big text

<big>Big text</big>

Small text

Small text

<small>Small text</small>

Superscript text

This sentence has some ^{Superscript text} in it.

<sup>Superscript text</sup>

Subscript text

This sentence has some _{Subscript text} in it.

<sub>Subscript text</sub>

Coloured text

RGB defined: green text

<span style="color:#296F39">green text</span>

or

Colour defined: red text

<span style="color:red">red</span>

Highlighting text

This text is on a green background

<span style="background:#00C000">This text is on a green background</span>

This bold text is on a yellow background with link

<span style="background:yellow">'''[[Vaniquotes:Category:Yellow|This bold text is on a yellow background with link]]'''</span>

This text is yellow and on a green background

<span style="color:#FFFF00; background:#00C000">This text is yellow and on a green background</span>

Multiple blank lines

To place multiple blank lines





before the next line of text.

To place multiple blank lines
<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />







before the next line of text.

Multiple spaces

To place multiple         spaces     between         words.

To place multiple         spaces     between         words.

Blockquote

A Blockquote will indent both left and right margins:

Blockquote

Text after the Blockquote

<blockquote>Blockquote</blockquote>

Special Characters and Symbols

• More info can be found here

Name	Char	Code
and	&	&
ellipsis	…	…
em dash	—	—
en dash	&	–
space	 	 
Copyright	©	©
Fraction	¼	¼
Fraction	⅓	⅓
Fraction	½	½
Fraction	¾	¾
Degrees	°	°
Divide	÷	÷
Bullet	•	•
Asterisk	∗	∗
Diamond	♦	♦

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Use of div tags

Colored background with border

Srila Prabhupada's Lectures on this Verse

710401 - Lecture BG 07.07 - Bombay

740222 - Lecture BG 07.07 - Bombay

740813 - Lecture BG 07.07 - Vrndavana

<div style="background-color: #F9F9F9; border: .2em solid #EEEEEE; padding-left: 2em;  padding-right: 2em; padding-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em;">
 ==== Srila Prabhupada's Lectures on this Verse ====
 :[[vanisource:710401 - Lecture BG 07.07 - Bombay|710401 - Lecture BG 07.07 - Bombay]]
 :[[vanisource:710401 - Lecture BG 07.07 - Bombay|740222 - Lecture BG 07.07 - Bombay]]
 :[[vanisource:710401 - Lecture BG 07.07 - Bombay|740813 - Lecture BG 07.07 - Vrndavana]]
 </div>

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Placing Images

[[File:BG-chapter.png|108px|center|alt=Chapter 4: Transcendental Knowledge|link=]]

Title

[[File:1962-65-Srimad-Bhagwatams-1st-canto-dust-covers.png|108px|thumb|left|alt=Srimad Bhagwatam set|link=|<div class="center">'''Title'''</div>]]

Linking to PDFs

1962 PDF

[[File:Nuvola mimetypes pdf.png|thumb|right|alt=Srimad Bhagwatam|link=http://vanimedia.org/w/images/c/c5/1962-SB-Vol-1.pdf|<div class="center">'''1962 PDF'''</div>]]

Horizontal Lines

Text before Horizontal line

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text after Horizontal line

Text before Horizontal line
 ---- or <hr>
 text after Horizontal line

text before a narrow horizontal line

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text after line

text before a narrow horizontal line
 <hr width=20%>
 text after line (the 20% may be adjusted as necessary)

text before a centered narrow horizontal line

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text after line

<div class="center">
 text before a centered narrow horizontal line
 <hr width=50%>
 text after line (the 50% may be adjusted as necessary)
 </div>

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Inserting References

Note: place <references/> at the bottom of the page

Article text. Croaking of frogs.

Example: <ref name=frog>The [[Vaniquotes:Croaking of frogs|Croaking of frogs]] page in Vaniquotes talks about Croaking Frogs.</ref>

Article text. Croaking of frogs.

Example: <ref name=frog>The [[Vaniquotes:Croaking of frogs|Croaking of frogs]] page in Vaniquotes talks about Croaking Frogs.</ref>

Article text. Croaking.

Example: <ref name=croaking>The [[Vaniquotes:Croaking of frogs|Croaking of frogs]] page in Vaniquotes talks about Croaking Frogs.</ref>

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Tables

wikipedia Help:Table

Table

heading	heading
cell	cell
cell	cell

 
 {| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
 |+ Table
 ! heading !! heading
 |-
 | cell || cell
 |-
 | cell || cell
 |}
 

Cell 1 (no modifier—not aligned)

Cell 2 (right aligned)

Cell 3 (left aligned)

Cell 4 (centered)

 
 {| border="1" style="text-align:center; width:400px; height:200px;"
 |-
 | Cell 1 (no modifier—not aligned)
 |- valign="top"
 | align="right" | Cell 2 (right aligned)
 |- valign="middle"
 | align="left" | Cell 3 (left aligned)
 |- valign="bottom"
 | align="center" | Cell 4 (centered)
 |}
 

BOYS		GIRLS
Amyot, Robert—Avyaya das Cochet, Gerard—Krtajna das Bouvant, Bernard—Bhutakrd das Brinster, Phillipe—Bhima das Mougard, Yves—Mahabala das Perrin, Jean—Prakasatma das Verraes, Jurgen—Viruha das Voyer, Bernard—Vrsakrti das		Chabaud, Odile—Sasvatpavana dasi Giralt, Carmen Guptalaya dasi Heudebourg, Marie—Homavatsala Jako, Gislaine—Jalapriyadasi Schaufuss, Ann—Satarupa dasi Vautier, Annie—Visesa dasi

 {| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" 
 |-
 | BOYS
 | 
 | text align="center"| GIRLS
 |-
 | valign="top"|
 Amyot, Robert—Avyaya das<br />
 Cochet, Gerard—Krtajna das<br />
 Bouvant, Bernard—Bhutakrd das<br />
 Brinster, Phillipe—Bhima das<br />
 Mougard, Yves—Mahabala das<br />
 Perrin, Jean—Prakasatma das<br />
 Verraes, Jurgen—Viruha das<br />
 Voyer, Bernard—Vrsakrti das
 | valign="top"|            
 | valign="top"|
 Chabaud, Odile—Sasvatpavana dasi<br />
 Giralt, Carmen Guptalaya dasi<br />
 Heudebourg, Marie—Homavatsala<br />
 Jako, Gislaine—Jalapriyadasi<br />
 Schaufuss, Ann—Satarupa dasi<br />
 Vautier, Annie—Visesa dasi
 |}
 

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Jean Jacques Poree—Yajnesa dasa Bruno Vigneron—Brahma-jyestha dasa Pierre Cortier—Pranesvara dasa Claude Maurin—Kutastha dasa Aziz Neilli—Akhilesvara dasa

Christian—Jagadvasi dasa Jean Claude—Yajnabhuk dasa Christian Mauvillain—Jagatsrasta dasa Dairo Lopez—Devarat dasa Ian Johnston—Aniha dasa Christan Le Paumier—Jagannidhi dasa Georges Mauvillain—Ghora dasa Nestor de Guili—Niramaya dasa

 {| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" 
 |-
 | valign="top"|
 Jean Jacques Poree—Yajnesa dasa<br />
 Bruno Vigneron—Brahma-jyestha dasa<br />
 Pierre Cortier—Pranesvara dasa<br />
 Claude Maurin—Kutastha dasa<br />
 Aziz Neilli—Akhilesvara dasa
 |           
 | valign="top"|
 Christian—Jagadvasi dasa<br />
 Jean Claude—Yajnabhuk dasa<br />
 Christian Mauvillain—Jagatsrasta dasa<br />
 Dairo Lopez—Devarat dasa<br />
 Ian Johnston—Aniha dasa<br />
 Christan Le Paumier—Jagannidhi dasa<br />
 Georges Mauvillain—Ghora dasa<br />
 Nestor de Guili—Niramaya dasa
 |}
 

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RAYARAMA DAS BRAHMACHARY (Raymond Marais) Editor

 
 {| style="text-align:left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: 3em;"
 |RAYARAMA DAS BRAHMACHARY<br />(Raymond Marais)<br />Editor
 |}
 

Tables - Sortable

Heading 1	Heading 2	Heading 3	Heading 4
CELL 1	CELL 2	CELL 3	CELL 4
CELL 1	CELL 2	CELL 3	CELL 4

 {| class="wikitable sortable" style="background:#FFE6B2; margin: 1em auto 1em auto; text-align:center;"
 ! Heading 1 !! Heading 2 !! Heading 3 !! Heading 4
 |-
 | '''CELL 1'''||CELL 2||CELL 3||align="left"|CELL 4
 |-
 | '''CELL 1'''||CELL 2||CELL 3||align="left"|CELL 4
 |-
 |}
 

Cell contents alignment

The alignment of cell contents can be controlled with 2 different CSS properties: text-align and vertical-align. text-align can be specified at the table, row or individual cells, while vertical-align only can be specified at individual rows or cells.

You type

You get

{| class="wikitable" |- style="vertical-align:top;" | style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | A | style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | B | style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | C |- style="vertical-align:middle;" | style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | D | style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | E | style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | F |- style="vertical-align:bottom;" | style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:left;" | G | style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | H | style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:right;" | I |}

A B C D E F G H I

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Colapsable Content

• see also Manual:Collapsible elements

Title for the colapsable content is always shown here

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This text is colapsable

In fact everything here can be hidden

Example:

<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%;clear:both;">

<big>'''Title for the colapsable content is always shown here'''</big>

This text is colapsable
 
In fact everything here can be hidden

</div>

</div>

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Redirects

To create a re-direct page use this code:

#REDIRECT [[article link]]

Place an Anchor

Headings automatically become anchors. To link to the following heading:

==== heading name ====

use:

[[#heading name|any text]]

Alternativelly, at the beginning of the text to be linked to, add:

<span id="anchor_name">ANY TEXT HERE</span>

Link to an Anchor on the same page

[[#anchor_name|any text]]

Link to an Anchor on another page

Add #anchor_name or heading name to the end of the URL

[[pageurl#anchor_name|any text]]

Hidden Comments

To make hidden comments, simply use <!-- Your text goes here -->

 <!-- TEXT HERE WILL NOT BE DISPLAYED --> Please start and end text with a space

Hidden Categories

A category can be hidden by adding the magic word "__HIDDENCAT__" to the category page.

Hidden categories are automatically added to Category:Hidden categories

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