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Note that if someone is using a custom skin that specifies different link colors, for example, green for internal links, and purple for "redlinks," a link formatted with this code will still look blue, and not match other links in appearance, to that user.
You can use one of the following templates to generate these links: {} – generates a "Further information" link {} – generates a "See also" link; For example, to generate a "See also" link to the article on Wikipedia:How to edit a page, type {{See also|Wikipedia:How to edit a page}}, which will generate:
The MediaWiki software, which drives Wikipedia, allows the use of a subset of HTML 5 elements, or tags and their attributes, for presentation formatting. [1] However, most HTML functionality can be replicated using equivalent wiki markup or templates.
To allow scripts and components to access features of HTML and CSS, the contents of the document are represented as objects in a programming model known as the Document Object Model (DOM). The DOM API is the foundation of DHTML, providing a structured interface that allows access and manipulation of virtually anything in the document.
A collapsible element contains a toggle a reader can use to show or hide the element's content. Elements are made collapsible by adding the mw-collapsible class, or alternatively by using the {{}} template, or its variants {{Collapse top}} and {{Collapse bottom}}.
The {} template uses HTML, and will size-match a serif font, and will also prevent line-wrap. All templates are sensitive to the = sign, so remember to replace = with {} in template input, or start the input with 1=. Use wiki markup '' and ''' inside the {} template, as well as other HTML entities.
Wikipedia:Citation templates for templates used to format article references and citations; Wikipedia:Requested templates, to request creation of a template. Category:Wikipedia templates; Special:ExpandTemplates, expands all templates recursively; Use this form to search in the Template: or Template_talk: namespaces. See Help:Searching for more ...
The templates have parameters; to work properly, the parameter values have to be specified when the template is inserted in the page. This allows each infobox to show information relevant to the article subject, while requiring only a minimal amount of coding within each article.