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For each skin, the user can make various choices regarding fonts, colors, positions of links in the margin, etc. CSS is specified with reference to selectors : HTML elements, classes, and ID's specified in the HTML code. Accordingly, what the possibilities are for each skin can be seen by looking at the HTML source code of a page, in particular ...
This is because Wiki markup (and HTML markup) are now escaped as HTML entities when placed in the default Signature field, e.g. [ instead of [. If you would like a signature that requires markup within the Signature field, please check the "Treat the above as wiki markup" option and enter the full signature string into the field.
Span tags were enabled in MediaWiki on December 23, 2004. Polls were held in May and August 2004 on whether the English Wikipedia should enable them. The were equally split between supporting and opposing the addition of these tags. In December, the earlier objections that this would be a semantically void element were deemed to be no longer ...
Some people refer to elements as tags (e.g., "the P tag"). Remember that the element is one thing, and the tag (be it start or end tag) is another. For instance, the HEAD element is always present, even though both start and end HEAD tags may be missing in the markup. [1] Similarly the W3C Recommendation HTML 5.1 2nd Edition explicitly says:
Some tags that resemble HTML are actually MediaWiki parser and extension tags, and so are actually wiki markup. HTML included in pages can be validated for HTML5 compliance by using validation. Note that some elements and attributes supported by MediaWiki and browsers have been deprecated by HTML5 and should no longer be used.
You can add a table using HTML rather than wiki markup, as described at HTML element#Tables. However, HTML tables are discouraged because wikitables are easier to customize and maintain, as described at manual of style on tables. Also, note that the <thead>, <tbody>, <tfoot>, <colgroup>, and <col> elements are not supported in wikitext.
Classes are defined in the HTML document (generated by the server or by JavaScript). They are used as selectors in CSS. Learn to use the browser inspectors of Firefox , lE , Chrome or Safari to inspect the webpages.