Hello! Project Wiki:Advanced Formatting

Many ways of formatting things on a page are relatively common and straightforward. Enough that there are buttons on the editor page to help make them happen, or to help people use them. Then there are things that are less straightforward. This page will attempt to show some of these things that have ended up frequently used on the H!P Wiki, and how you can use them.

Colored Text
There's no wiki-specific formatting for doing this, so it's done the same way it would be in any HTML page.

 TEXT HERE 

Where it says COLORHERE there are several options for how to define the color.

#1: Simple color name.

TEXT HERE makes TEXT HERE

A list of possible color names to use can be found here.

#2: RGB values, giving a number for red, green, and blue from 0-255 each.

TEXT HERE makes TEXT HERE

#3: Hex value, which is really just a harder-to-read version of the above, but it may be this format you see just the color you want in someplace else.

TEXT HERE makes TEXT HERE

Tabber
Tabber is a way to have multiple bits of content share the same space on a page, and allows you to switch between them by clicking on different tabs. Here's a simple two-tab example:

First tab= Here's the first stuff |-|Second tab= Here's the second thing

which produces

First tab= Here's the first stuff Here's the second thing
 * -|Second tab=

To get more tabs, just continue adding in more sections like "Second tab" above and change them as you please. As example, here it is copied but NOT changed, to make the pattern more obvious:

First tab= Here's the first stuff |-|Second tab= Here's the second thing |-|Second tab= Here's the second thing |-|Second tab= Here's the second thing |-|Second tab= Here's the second thing

produces

First tab= Here's the first stuff Here's the second thing Here's the second thing Here's the second thing Here's the second thing
 * -|Second tab=
 * -|Second tab=
 * -|Second tab=
 * -|Second tab=

ShowHide
ShowHide allows you to add lengthy text to a page but take up a small amount of space unless someone chooses to expand it. More details can be seen at Template:ShowHide, but the basics are pretty simply that

produces

Family Tree
Template:Familytree is used on many pages to produce family trees, but it is not for the faint of heart or easy to explain. For now I'll link to this blog entry which walks through the process of creating this example tree:

which produces

In General...
If there's something not listed here you don't understand how to use, a general piece of advice. Go to the Edit view for a page (or section of page) that has the thing you're trying to understand--seeing how someone else accomplished something, copying it, and changing it until it's what you wanted is a great way to learn things. If that fails, there's probably an admin or experienced editor who can give a hand or at least point in the right direction.