Editing Help:Editing (section)

== HTML tags ==

Some [[wikipedia:HTML|HTML]] tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example <code>&lt;code></code>, <code>&lt;div></code>, <code><nowiki><span></nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki><font></nowiki></code>. These apply anywhere you insert them.

{| class="wikitable"
! Description
! width=40% | You type
! width=40% | You get
|-
| Inserted<br/>(Displays as underline in most browsers.)
| <pre>
<ins>Inserted</ins>

or

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Underline</span>
</pre>
|
<ins>Inserted</ins>

or

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Underline</span>
|-
| Deleted<br/>(Displays as strikethrough in most browsers.)
| <pre>
<del>Deleted</del>

or

<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">Deleted</span>
</pre>
|
<del>Deleted</del>

or

<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">Deleted</span>
|-
| Fixed width text
| <pre>
<code>Source code</code>

or

<tt>Fixed width text</tt>
</pre>
|
<code>Source code</code>

or

<tt>Fixed width text</tt>
|-
| Blockquotes
| <pre>
text above
text above
<blockquote>blockquote</blockquote>
text below
text below
</pre>
|
text above
text above
<blockquote>blockquote</blockquote>
text below
text below
|-
| Comment
| <pre>
<!-- This is a comment -->
Comments are only visible
in the edit window.
</pre>
|
<!-- This is a comment -->
Comments are only visible
in the edit window.
|-
| Completely preformatted text
| <pre>
<pre> Text is '''preformatted''' and
''markups'' '''''cannot''''' be done&lt;/pre>
</pre>
----
{{note|For marking up of preformatted text, check the "Preformatted text" entry at the bottom of the previous table.}} 
|
<pre> Text is '''preformatted''' and
''markups'' '''''cannot''''' be done</pre>
|-
| '''Customized''' preformatted text
| <pre>
<pre style="color:red">
Text is '''preformatted'''
with a style and
''markups'' '''''cannot''''' be done
&lt;/pre>
</pre>
----
{{note|A CSS style can be named within the <code>style</code> property.}}
|
<pre style="color:red">
Text is '''preformatted'''
with a style and
''markups'' '''''cannot''''' be done
</pre>
|-
| '''Customized''' preformatted text with text wrap according to screen width
| <pre>
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap">
This longer sentence is used to demonstrate text wrapping. &lt;/pre>
</pre>
|
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap">
This longer sentence is used to demonstrate text wrapping.</pre>
|}