How to Use HelpWiki Page Layouts

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
  • All templates must open and close with curly brackets
    • Example:
  • Formating commands must open with a pipe and end with equal signs
    • Example:

Editing pages built 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 right away when creating a page
• Copy and paste the HTML layout 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.