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====<span class="anchor" id="DL"></span><span class="anchor" id="Definition lists"></span><span class="anchor" id="Association lists"></span><span class="anchor" id="H:DL"></span>Description lists====

===={{Anchor|DL}}Description lists====

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* Embedding the image in the text is only possible for very small images.

* Embedding the image will affect the vertical formatting of text.

|- style="vertical-align: top;" id="alt tag"

| <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">With alternative text:

[[File:wiki.png|alt=Puzzle globe logo]]</syntaxhighlight>

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* {{anchor|alt tag}}Alternative text, used when the image is unavailable or when the image is loaded in a text-only browser, or when spoken aloud, is '''strongly''' encouraged. See [[Wikipedia:Alternative text for images|Alternative text for images]] for help on choosing it.

|- style="vertical-align:top;"

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* The frame tag automatically floats the image right.

* The frame tag is only of use with very small images or ones using the [[#px tag|px tag]]

* The attributes left, center or centre override this, and places the image to the left or the centre of the page. {{anchor|upright tag}}

* The last parameter is the caption that appears below the image.

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* The [[WP:PIC|picture tutorial]] explains more options.

|- style="vertical-align:top;" id="px tag"

| <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">A picture resized to 50 pixels...

[[File:wiki.png|50 px|Wikipedia encyclopedia]]</syntaxhighlight>

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* {{anchor|px tag}}The [[WP:PIC|picture tutorial]] explains more options.

* Sizing in pixels is deprecated and should be used very sparingly.

* There is an [[#upright tagWP:PICSIZE|''upright'' attributeparameter]] that should be used instead. These tags are optimised for both laptop and mobile phone screens.

|- style="vertical-align:top;"

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If a page is transcluded without transclusion markup, it may cause an unintentional [[Help:Category#Putting_pages_in_categories|categorization]]. Any page transcluding it will contain the same category as the original page. Wrap the category markup with '''<nowiki><noinclude></nowiki>''' tags to prevent incorrect categorization.

{{anchor|hovertext}}

Some templates take ''parameters'', as well, which you separate with the pipe character <code>|</code>.

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{{Help:Transclusion demo}}

|- id=hovertext

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<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">

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{{==<span class="anchor|" id="Limiting formatting}}"></span><span {{class="anchor|" id="Limiting formatting / escaping wiki markup}}"></span> Limiting formatting and escaping wikitext ==

== Limiting formatting and escaping wikitext ==

{{see also|Template:Escape template list}}

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===<span class="anchor" id="NOWIKI"></span>Nowiki===

{{anchor|NOWIKI}}

{{redirect|WP:NOWIKI|the essay about the name "Wiki"|Wikipedia:Don't abbreviate "Wikipedia" as "Wiki"!|the Wikipedia language edition|Norwegian Wikipedia}}

{{shortcut|H:NOWIKI|WP:NOWIKI}}