New Standards
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Experimental page for developing and testing new standards and also to understand the capabilities of this site.
Don't Use Them: Until these standards are sufficiently refined and accepted by the community, don’t use them.
HTML Tags
There are a lot of HTML tags. For obvious reasons, many tags do not work on MediaWiki-based sites. Here is a list of tags, do they work on this site and some description
| Tag | It works? | Description |
|---|---|---|
<!-- Comment --> |
Yes | Defines a comment. |
<!DOCTYPE> |
No | Defines the document type. |
<a> |
No | Defines a hyperlink. Doesn’t work because MediaWiki-based sites use their own linking system using square brackets. |
<abbr> |
Yes | Defines an abbreviation or an acronym. Adds a dotted underline and changes the cursor to a question mark cursor on hover. |
<address> |
No | Defines contact information for the author/owner of a document. |
<area> |
No | Defines an area inside an image map. |
<article> |
No | Defines an article. |
<aside> |
No | Defines content aside from the page content. |
<audio> |
No | Defines embedded sound content. |
<b> |
Yes | Defines bold text. |
<base> |
No | Specifies the base URL/target for all relative URLs in a document. WARNING: If you use this tag and enter the href attribute into it, this will lead to the site restricting your access. You will not be blocked, the site simply does not allow this part of the code to be on the page. |
<bdi> |
Yes | Isolates a part of text that might be formatted in a different direction from other text outside it. |
<bdo> |
Yes | Overrides the current text direction. |
<big> |
Yes | Not supported in HTML5. Defines big text. |
<blockquote> |
Yes | Defines a section that is quoted from another source. |
<body> |
No | Defines the document’s body. |
<br> |
Yes | Defines a single line break. |
<button> |
No | Defines a clickable button. |
<canvas> |
No | Used to draw graphics, on the fly, via scripting. |
<caption> |
Yes | Defines a table caption. Notice: This tag has a dark text color that blends with the background. |
<center> |
Yes | Not supported in HTML5. Defines centered text. |
<cite> |
Yes | Defines the title of a work. |
<code> |
Yes | Defines a piece of computer code. |
<col> |
No | Specifies column properties for each column within a <colgroup> element. |
<colgroup> |
No | Specifies a group of one or more columns in a table for formatting. |
Inline CSS
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