View source for User:MacGyverMagic/Editing

*[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-12-26/Wiki_tools|Signpost article on new tools]]
*[[User:Bluemoose/AutoWikiBrowser]]

===My templates===
*[[User:MacGyverMagic/Box|Left]] and [[User:MacGyverMagic/Box2|Right box]] on my user page
*[[Template:UpdatedDYK|DYK update notice]]
*[[User:MacGyverMagic/Bookmarks|Bookmarks for WP pages box]]
*[[User:MacGyverMagic/DYK|DYK featured notice]]
*[[User:MacGyverMagic/Inuse|Personal "In use" notice]]
*[[User:MacGyverMagic/Contest|Contest notice]]

*[[User:MacGyverMagic/NumTable|Numeral table]]
*[[User:MacGyverMagic/CarTable|Small table]]

*[[User:MacGyverMagic/Chemical|Chemical]]
*[[User:MacGyverMagic/Table|Old links table]]
*[[User:MacGyverMagic/Ripper victims]] - colored template

<nowiki>{{newmessages|User talk:MacGyverMagic}}</nowiki> gives:
{{newmessages|User talk:MacGyverMagic}}

===Hieroglyphs Test===
<hiero>b*i:n-w</hiero> '''''evil''''' ''written in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs''

===Useful Box===
<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;">
'Put your text here'
</blockquote><br>

===User box===
There is actually a template for making up your own boxes stemming from babel: [[:Template:Userbox]].  Inserting <nowiki>{{Userbox|Green|Yellow|[[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|40px]]|This is an example infobox}}</nowiki> displays as: 

{{Userbox|Green|Yellow|[[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|40px]]|This is an example infobox}}<br>

(copied from [[User:Paul Klenk|Paul Klenk's]] talk page)<br>

===Inserting pictures===
<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;"> 
<nowiki>[[Image:picturename.jpg|thumb|right|250px|description]]</nowiki>
</blockquote>

===Code===
<code>
== Div and span attributes ==

Please go over some basic div and span attributes. Put a <nowiki>{{tb}}</nowiki> on my talk page when awnsered.--[[User:Ipatrol|Ipatrol]] ([[User talk:Ipatrol|talk]]) 23:31, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

:HTML or CSS attributes? -- [[User:Kainaw|<font color='#ff0000'>k</font><font color='#cc0033'>a</font><font color='#990066'>i</font><font color='#660099'>n</font><font color='#3300cc'>a</font><font color='#0000ff'>w</font>]][[User talk:Kainaw|&trade;]] 00:59, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

:[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_DIV.asp DIV] and [http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_span.asp SPAN] at w3schools. If you still have questions then ask away! Otherwise look things up for yourself. --[[Special:Contributions/98.217.8.46|98.217.8.46]] ([[User talk:98.217.8.46|talk]]) 01:48, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

::And we have an article on [[span and div]]. --—<i><b>—&nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|<font color = "gray">Gadget850&nbsp;(Ed)</font>]]<font color = "darkblue">&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Gadget850|''talk'']]</sup></font></b> - </i> 02:10, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
</code>

===Variables===
<nowiki>
{{CURRENTMONTH}} </nowiki>	- 05 <br>
<nowiki>{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} 	</nowiki>- May <br>
<nowiki>{{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}} </nowiki> -	May <br>
<nowiki>{{CURRENTDAY}} </nowiki>	- 10 <br>
<nowiki>{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}</nowiki> 	- Monday <br>
<nowiki>{{CURRENTYEAR}} </nowiki>	- 2004 <br>
<nowiki>{{CURRENTTIME}} </nowiki>	- 10:56 <br>
<nowiki>{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} </nowiki>	- 263229 <br>

===Dashed Lines===
''(Taken from the Village Pump)''<br>
<nowiki>
<div style="float:right;
border-style:dashed;
border-color:blue;
border-width:1px;
text-align:center;
padding:2px;">
[[Wikipedia:WP|Shorthand:]]<br>
[[WP:VP]]
</div>
</nowiki>

===Infobox table coding===
''see edit screen for code''
<!--
<nowiki>
{| align="right" border="1" cellpadding="2" width="300" 
style="margin-left:0.5em;"
|- 
! style="background:pink" | <big>{{{subject_name}}}</big>
|- 
| align="center" | {{{picture_link}}}{{{image_caption}}}
|- 
|
{| border="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%"
|- 
! align="right" | Players:
| {{{players}}}
|- 
! align="right" | Age range:
| {{{ages}}}
|- 
! align="right" | Setup time:
| {{{setup_time}}}
|- 
! align="right" | Playing time:
| {{{playing_time}}}
|- 
! align="right" | Rules complexity:
| {{{complexity}}}
|- 
! align="right" | Strategy depth:
| {{{strategy}}}
|- 
! align="right" | Random chance:
| {{{random_chance}}}
|- 
! align="right" | Skills required:
| {{{skills}}}
|}
|}
</nowiki>
-->

==Bio box==
{| class="infobox biography" style="width: 20em; text-align: center;"
|-
! style="font-size: 16px;" | Mr. X
|- 
| style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;" | [[File:Bad Title Example.png|center|200px|Mr. X]]</div>
|-
| '''Born'''
|-
| style="font-size: 12px;" | 12 August 1911<br>Upper Case, Puzzelania
|-
| '''Occupation'''
|-
| style="font-size: 12px;" | Wikipedian, 2001-2004
|-
|}
[[Template:Infobox Biography]] or thingy on the right.

==Birth date and Age template==
<nowiki>{{birth date and age|1993|2|20}}</nowiki> renders as {{birth date and age|1993|2|20}}

==Small and columns==
<nowiki><div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; column-count:2;"></div></nowiki>

== Hiding Text in Articles ==

Hello. I was editing (or trying to edit) some Wikibooks pages and I wanted to enter some problems and answers. My problem has to do with hiding the text so that the user can click a text line (ostensibly "'''Solution'''" or something like that) to see the answer. Is there any way to do this on Wikipedia?
Thanks a lot for your help in advance.[[User:Robinson0120|Robinson0120]] 02:07, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
:I don't know if that's possible, but there is a way to hide text so that only people editing the test will see it.  So, it's possible to instruct readers to click the edit button, view the solution, then hit the back button.  Edit this text to see what I mean... <!--this is a hidden message.--> —[[User:Keakealani|<span style="color:#8100b4;">K</span>]][[User:Keakealani/Esperanza|<span style="color:#2f690d;">e</span>]][[User:Keakealani|<span style="color:#8100b4;">akealani</span>]] 02:09, 25 December 2006 (UTC)


Well, there's:
<pre><nowiki>
<div class="NavFrame" style="width: 40%">
<div style="background: #FFFFF0" class="NavHead">Question</div>
<div class="NavContent">Answer</div>
</div>
</nowiki></pre>

Which renders like:
<div class="NavFrame" style="width: 40%">
<div style="background: #FFFFF0" class="NavHead">Question</div>
<div class="NavContent">Answer</div>
</div>

... So surely there must be some simpler template out there. I don't quite know how to make it hidden by default, though. &mdash; [[User:Kieff|Kieff]] 02:17, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Wow, that was quick! Thanks to both of you. (If anybody DOES know how to make that template hidden, a chime in would be really appreciated!) [[User:Robinson0120|Robinson0120]] 02:22, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

{| class="collapsible collapsed" style="width:100%;background:#fff;font-size:88%;text-align: left; border: 0px; margin-top: 0.2em;"
|-
! style="background-color: #f2dfce;" | Try this!
|-
| style="border: solid 1px silver; padding: 8px; background-color: white;" | It should work. [[User:Flcelloguy|Flcelloguy]] <small>([[User talk:Flcelloguy|A <span style="color:brown;">note?</span>]])</small> 02:27, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
|}

:Alright! That's exactly what I'm looking for, thanks Flcelloguy![[User:Robinson0120|Robinson0120]] 02:29, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

== Text/Input boxes ==
:''from Help Desk''
Is there a way to insert Text/Input boxes into pages?
[[User:Ajl772|Ajl772]] 17:57, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
:Only in some specific cases. You can do this:
<inputbox>type=search</inputbox>
:or this:
<inputbox>type=create</inputbox>
:but the general case is impossible. (See 'edit' for this section to see how I've done this, or [[m:Help:Inputbox]] for full information about the syntax.) --[[User:ais523|ais523]] 18:11, 8 March 2007 ([[User:ais523|U]][[User talk:ais523|T]][[Special:Contributions/Ais523|C]])

==to do task box==
{{tl|todo}} includes the following template:<br/>
{{tasks
  |requests= 1
  |copyedit= general
  |wikify= somethings are wikified repeatedly, find them and eliminate them
  |merge= no
  |cleanup= general formatting, especially dates
  |expand= more history
  |stubs= ?
  |update= add latest record
  |npov= NPOV lead
  |other= ...
}}

==Collapsible boxes==
I would like to have a few boxes on my user page that can collapse (be hidden until [Show] is selected). I can't seem to find a template or an HTML tag to help me. Can you point me in the right direction? Thx! ←Signed:→<font color="#380355" face="Segoe Script"><span style="cursor:move">Mr. E. Sánchez</span> <sup>'''[[User:ESanchez013|Get to know me!]]'''</sup> / <sub>'''[[User talk:ESanchez013|Talk to me!]]'''</sub></font>←at≈:→ 03:52, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

*There's several ways, but one of the simplest is to use "collapsible collapsed" in the heading of a table.

{|class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
|-
!Example #1
|-
|THIS IS HIDDEN TEXT
|-
|}
{|class="collapsible collapsed" style="width:100%;background:#fff;font-size:88%;border: 1px solid #a2a9b1;"
|-
! style="background:lavender" |Example #2
|-
|THIS IS HIDDEN TEXT
|-
|}

*Another Method is this:

<div style="clear:both;" class="NavFrame collapsed">
<div class="NavHead" style="text-align:center; font-size:100%;"> Example #3: Using divs </div>
This method uses divs instead of table syntax.
You can display some text here, and then have the user Click '''Show''' to display additional text.
<div class="NavContent" style="text-align:center;"> ''Hidden Text goes in here.'' 
''I like this method best.''
</div>
</div>

<span style="float:right"> -- [[User:GateKeeperX|GateKeeper]]<sup>([[User talk:GateKeeperX|X]])</sup> <font color="red">@</font> <font face="Comic Sans" size="2"> ''  '' </font> 05:45, 29 November 2008 (UTC)</span>

::Super awesome. I also like your favorite box. Thanks!! ←Signed:→<font color="#380355" face="Segoe Script"><span style="cursor:move">Mr. E. Sánchez</span> <sup>'''[[User:ESanchez013|Get to know me!]]'''</sup> / <sub>'''[[User talk:ESanchez013|Talk to me!]]'''</sub></font>←at≈:→ 07:17, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

:::And there is the template {{tl|hidden}}. --—<i><b>—&nbsp;[[User:Gadget850|<span style="color:gray;">Gadget850&nbsp;(Ed)</span>]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Gadget850|<sup style="color:darkblue;">talk</sup>]]</b> - </i> 08:36, 29 November 2008 (UTC)