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Thing Wikitext Notes Thing Wikitext Notes
Control column width
!!scope="col" style="width: 25em;" | Stuff A !! Stuff B 
Preferably place in header row. Controls the width of the Stuff A column.
colspan in table
|colspan=2| 1st colspan cell ||colspan=2| 2nd colspan cell
use rowspan=X in the same way
Making a piped link
[[Destination|ClickMe]]
The basic structure of a table
{|style="margin: 2px;"
! A !! B !! C
|-
| 1 || 2 || 3
|}
Table is 3 columns, 2 rows (1st row is header formatted), and includes a 2 pixel external buffer/margin on top, bottom, right and left.
Adding to a category
[[Category:XYZ]]
use on an article or category page
Linking to a category
[[:Category:XYZ]]
Control font size
<font size="+1">word</font>
Use only values of -2, +1 and higher
Ending part w. horiz. stacked tables
<br style="clear:left">
Presumably use "right" for right-stacked tables? For starting a new article
Click me!
Leads to the template or structure for new articles
Comment
<!-- comment -->
 
Making a redirect to another page
#REDIRECT [[pagename]]
Must be on 1st line of page
 
Soft hyphen
&shy;
Tells browser it's OK to break up word there
 
Non-breaking space
&nbsp;
Inserted into any normal text
 
Non-breaking hyphen
&#8209;
 
 
 
 
 
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