Difference between revisions of "How to Use HelpWiki Page Layouts"

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How to Use Page Layouts to Design your Help Wiki Page.

Templates allow the user to create pages that exist in preexisting layouts without needing to know HTML.
How to set up a template
- All templates must open and close with curly brackets
  - Example: Template:Template
- Formating commands must open with a pipe and end with equal signs
  - Example:

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 use HTML you can copy and paste HTML from other formatted pages to style your page.

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 {{2colbox|Title1='''Page Layouts that Utilize Templates'''
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+*Templates allow the user to create pages that exist in preexisting layouts without needing to know HTML.
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+*How to set up a template
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+**All templates must open and close with curly brackets
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+***'''Example: {{ Template }}
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+**Formating commands must open with a pipe and end with equal signs
+***'''Example:''' |asdf=
+*However once the page is in template format you cannot use the visual editor, as the visual editor only works with pages in HTML
+*If you want to convert your page from template format to HTML input "subst:" right before the start of the template
 |Title2='''Page Layouts that Remain in HTML'''
 |Content2=
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+*Use of HTML to build the page allows the user to utilize the visual editor when editing a page
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+*If you do not know how to use HTML you can copy and paste HTML from other formatted pages to style your page.
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 |sidebar=