Difference between revisions of "How to Use HelpWiki Page Layouts"
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− | + | ===Page Layouts Using Templates=== | |
*Templates allow the user to format pages into preexisting layouts without needing to know HTML. | *Templates allow the user to format pages into preexisting layouts without needing to know HTML. | ||
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*'''How to set up a template''' | *'''How to set up a template''' | ||
**All templates must open and close with curly brackets | **All templates must open and close with curly brackets | ||
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**Formating commands must open with a pipe and end with equal signs | **Formating commands must open with a pipe and end with equal signs | ||
***'''Example:''' [[File:Screen Shot 2017-05-09 at 4.48.46 PM.png]] | ***'''Example:''' [[File:Screen Shot 2017-05-09 at 4.48.46 PM.png]] | ||
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− | + | ====Downside to using Templates==== | |
+ | Pages using layout template cannot be edited via visual editor | ||
+ | * To enable Visual Editor editing, you'll want to convert your page from template format to HTML | ||
+ | * input "subst:" right before the start of the template and save the page. The template syntax will be replaced by the html layout tags | ||
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+ | ===Page Layouts Using HTML Layouts=== | ||
*Use of HTML to build the page allows the user to utilize the visual editor when editing a page | *Use of HTML to build the page allows the user to utilize the visual editor when editing a page | ||
*If you do not know how to write HTML you can copy and paste HTML from other formatted pages to style your page. | *If you do not know how to write HTML you can copy and paste HTML from other formatted pages to style your page. | ||
− | *The HTML pages in the Page layout | + | *The HTML pages in the Page layout category list common HTML formats for pages to copy and paste. |
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Revision as of 14:21, 12 May 2017
How to Use Page Layouts to Design your Help Wiki Page.
Page Layouts Using Templates
- Templates allow the user to format pages into preexisting layouts without needing to know HTML.
- How to set up a template
Downside to using Templates
Pages using layout template cannot be edited via visual editor
- To enable Visual Editor editing, you'll want to convert your page from template format to HTML
- input "subst:" right before the start of the template and save the page. The template syntax will be replaced by the html layout tags
Page Layouts Using HTML Layouts
- Use of HTML to build the page allows the user to utilize the visual editor when editing a page
- If you do not know how to write HTML you can copy and paste HTML from other formatted pages to style your page.
- The HTML pages in the Page layout category list common HTML formats for pages to copy and paste.