[Mediawiki-l] noob questions

Thu Apr 27 10:34:11 UTC 2006

Use <nowiki><table></nowiki>.

Dave Howorth wrote:

>Elliott F. Cable wrote:
>  
>
>>>I have one page where I'm documenting how some of my code works. It's
>>>Javascript so the text is liberally scattered with HTML tags that I'm
>>>discussing. But mediawiki is *interpreting* these tags as HTML! I see
>>>that this is a feature from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ 
>>>Help:Editing
>>>and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:HTML_in_wikitext even tells me
>>>which tags are affected. But I can't find anywhere that tells me  
>>>how to
>>>turn this feature off when I don't want it. How can I write text that
>>>includes HTML tags as literals?
>>>      
>>>
>><pre> <---- Makes text look like code, but I expect you know that.
>><nowiki> <--- Turns off wiki. Totally. Everything below here will  
>>appear AS YOU TYPE IT.
>>function thisIsCode() {
>>	$done = true;
>>	return true;
>>}
>></nowiki> <--- Turns back on wiki. Continues as normal.
>></pre> <--- closes code block.
>>    
>>
>
>I probably didn't explain very well. The HTML tags are embedded in text. 
>Here's a typical sample:
>
>"The normal solution for a single-line input choice is a <select> 
>element, but these aren't too good at displaying large text fields such 
>as the description and don't allow nice formatting to separate fields. 
>So I was using a <table> with an <input type="radio">  column but that 
>takes up too much screen real estate."
>
>The <table> tag completely screws the page. I want wiki formatting 
>turned *on* so that I can use text styling as normal. But I don't want 
>HTML tags interpreted at all. What I want is something like <nohtml> ... 
></nohtml>.
>
>I think your suggestion has me typing <pre><table></pre> everywhere, 
>which doesn't seem to fit with the wiki notion of simple text 
>preparation. Plus. it doesn't actually work! It makes the text look like 
>this:
>
>"The normal solution for a single-line input choice is a <select> 
>element, but these aren't too good at displaying large text fields such 
>as the description and don't allow nice formatting to separate fields. 
>So I was using a
>
><table>
>
>with an <input type="radio">  column but that takes up too much screen 
>real estate."
>
>The least annoying workaround I've found so far is to write all the tags 
>like this: < table >. But that's a PITA as well.
>
>Cheers, Dave
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