Project:Support desk/Sections/Formatting

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= Formatting Support =

How can I get my text to have a "right" alignment?
I can't figure out how to get text aligned to the right side of the page, despite searching the help pages for "alignment." Please help!

YOUR TEXT HERE Dr. Eme

Existing pages with table code doesn't work in mediawiki 1.13.2

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.2
 * PHP version: 5.2.6
 * MySQL version: 5.0.51a
 * URL: localhost

I have upgraded mediawiki version 1.10.0 with 1.13.2. I have executed update.php and refreshLinks.php. But the pages which have table code has broken. The data is in text table. All the pages are working good with 1.10.0 version. But doesn't work with 1.13.2.

So, I have edited the page which was not working on 1.13.2 and copied the data from other system where it is working with 1.10.0 and saved the changes. but the page is not saving properly and it is removing the '|' and also placing some extra characters to the data.

Even the table format is good also the page is not getting displayed in tabular form.

It works good when i create a new page with table format.

Please help me that what's wrong with version 1.13.2 that doesn't support existing page table code? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.88.84.10 (talk • contribs) 20:49, 31 December 2008. Please sign your posts with ~ !


 * I really need your help in finding this problem. Actually, it looks like there is some encoding problem some where with mediawiki version 1.13.2. This is corrupting the page display. If you are already aware of the problem then please let me know what could be the solution? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.88.85.100 (talk • contribs) 18:21, 13 January 2009. Please sign your posts with ~ !

nowiki tags appear

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.3
 * PHP version: 5.5
 * MySQL version: 5
 * URL:

Hi all,

I have a certain issue which makes  appear on the results of an mssql query below are the source



Fixed Issues
The table below lists all issues fixed since the last release.

include a path and transfer a excel table

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.2
 * PHP version: 5.2.0-8+etch13 (cgi-fcgi)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.32-Debian_7etch8-log
 * URL:

Hello I'm trying to include the path on the top of a site (example wiki>help>diskussions>). Are there a command? I'm looking for a tool to transfer excel tabel in a wiki table? Thanks for help

html dont show on the page

 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.1
 * PHP version: 5.2.6-1+lenny3 (apache2handler)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.51a-24+lenny2
 * URL: http://elacd.carnet.hr/index.php/Glavna_stranica

Hello, I was upgrading my wiki to a new version. Everything goes ok except one thing. On this page on may wiki http://elacd.carnet.hr/index.php/E-learning_alati_i_tehnologije there is one photo that is made by GIMP Imagemap plugin. Before was working just fine but now my wiki cant recognize the html code. So i suppose that somewhere i need to eneble that but where? tnx

keyboard changer
Like [ml.wikipedia.org] how to add a option to switch from inscript keyboard to phonetic keyboard ?

Problem with templates
A lot of my templates are not working and i am not sure what i am missing. Look here http://www.adultinfopedia.com/wiki/Template:Female_adult_bio


 * MediaWiki version: newest version of wikimedia
 * PHP version: PHP 5.2.x
 * MySQL version: MySQL 5.0.x
 * URL: http://www.adultinfopedia.com

Want the theme used in this site

 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.4
 * PHP version: 5.3.0
 * MySQL version: 5.1.36

I want to have a theme that the Mediawiki site (the current one), is currently having, in the wiki site that I am designing. When I say, the current theme it includes the following few:
 * Side navigations with arrow button and hide/show menu items.
 * Tab bars used in the Top-level navigation.
 * Search textbox at top right corner of your site.

—Bharath h 13:19, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Use CSS for style my wiki

 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.4
 * PHP version: 5.3.0
 * MySQL version: 5.1.37
 * URL:

Hello, I like to style my Wiki with css stylesheets, but I don't know how. Can I code the css style direktly into an article? I tried it with  at the beginning of an artikel, but it doesn't work. That the same for html code, i tried to define a tag, but it is interpreted as plain text. Should I edit the index.php in the wiki home directory?

Thanks in advance,

Christian

—62.156.187.162 17:37, 27 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Use MediaWiki:Common.css. For finding the different tags and classes to be influenced by your own css use the "show source code" functions of your browser. Best regards -- JörgM 84.156.136.138 06:37, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Font size suddenly increased - inline styles?
Our wiki's font has all of a sudden become too large. (Yes, I checked my browser settings first. It's happening on everyone's computer. ;) Due to my company's policy and firewall, I don't have access to Firefox on my machine, only IE 7, so I saved one of the pages as a flat HTML file and then opened it on a standalone machine using Firefox. The computed CSS for font size is now 16px, but I'm unable to find exactly WHERE that's being declared.
 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.0
 * PHP version: 5.2.4
 * MySQL version: 5.0.45
 * URL: [Internal site]

The only clue I can find is a table class that doesn't exist anywhere in our stylesheets and the name seems to appear to be generated as an inline style. (It says table class="diptable collapsible" - but there's no diptable in any of the stylesheets.) There are also some tables whose CSS seems to be messed up by inline styles, as they're not lining up properly as they were before -- almost as if the width was changed.

The only change I've made recently (and I undid the changes after the site started acting wonky) was a change in the UserLogin.php template -- I added another table row in with text that could be edited in Special:AllMessages. However, I undid all the changes once the site started acting weird, but it's still showing the bloated font size/messed up layout.

Any advice would be very much appreciated. Thank you!

—169.253.4.21 16:29, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Parameters when embedding Special:WhatLinksHere

 * MediaWiki version: 1.13.5
 * PHP version: 5.2.14 (cgi-fcgi)
 * MySQL version: 5.0.51a-24+lenny4
 * URL: not available to the public

(should work also on
 * MediaWiki version: 1.15.4 (to be updated ...)
 * PHP version: 5.2.5
 * MySQL version: 5.0.51
 * URL: not available to the public)

Embedding special page Special:WhatLinksHere works when using the solution on m:Help:Embed_page (i.e. changing an array at includes/SpecialPage.php). So it can embedded using  .

What I am looking for is if there is any possibility to add a parameter for a certain namespace (something like  ), maybe by using a programmed template or something else. I have got solutions which


 * change standard parameters in includes/specials/SpecialWhatlinkshere.php (this is site-wide; results in disability for giving links from ALL namespaces),
 * give just a pre-defined link instead of embedding (user has to click on the link),
 * embed an iframe with a pre-defined link (user gets a whole wiki page in the iframe including links, which results maybe in further reading and editing in the iframe),

but there is always something not being that convenient (as described above). Any ideas? Best regards -- JörgM 84.156.136.138 06:24, 4 August 2010 (UTC)