Help:Additional Markup

This page covers additional markup, adding to what was introduced in Basic Markup.

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Page Breaks

You can create a line break with <br/>.

Example:

Colossus<br/>The Fire Dragon

Produces:
Colossus
The Fire Dragon

Horizontal lines

You can draw a horizontal line across the screen with <hr/>.

Example:

<hr/>

Produces:

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More about links

Alternate text

If you would like to use alternate text on a link within the wiki, it is done like this:

Example:

[[Sit & Smoke Station|My favorite ride]]

Produces:
My favorite ride

References

When you want to reference a source of information, it is done by creating a link to an external page, adding the date and name of the source after the link, and putting the whole thing between <ref> and </ref> tags. It is placed within the text of the article.

Example:

<ref>[http://www.sltrib.com/article Article Name] Salt Lake Tribune, 01-01-2015</ref>

This will add a small notation in the article's text and put a the full reference at the bottom of the page.

Further Information

For further details on linking see Mediawiki Help:Links.

More about Pictures

Thumbnails

Create a thumb

Gallery

Picture Gallery

Further Information

Mediawiki

Videos

Youtube videos can be added using the video's URL and a brief description in the following way (copy and paste this for best results):

{{#ev:youtube
|https://youtu.be/NZVC65W-SNY
|||Lagoon Best Friends
|frame
}}

Produces:

Load video

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Lagoon Best Friends

Collapsible content

Collapsible stuff

Tables

You can create tables that hold information similar to a spreadsheet.

Example:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
|Colossus||Roller Coaster||Wicked
|-
|Blue||Brown||Green
|-
|Yellow||White||Yellow
|}

Produces:

Colossus	Roller Coaster	Wicked
Blue	Brown	Green
Yellow	White	Yellow

Tables can be somewhat more complicated than other markup. For full instructions see Mediawiki Help:Tables.

Copying what you see

If you see something on this wiki (or any wiki) that you would like to know the markup for, just look at the source of the page. If you are logged in and can edit pages, click "Edit" at the top of the page. You can read that page's markup and copy what you see. If you are not logged in and can't edit pages, you can still click "View Source" to see the page's markup.

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