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In [[digital imaging]], a '''pixel'''<ref>{{Cite book

| author=Rudolf F. Graf | date=1999 | publisher=Newnes

| title=Modern Dictionary of Electronics
| publisher=Newnes | ___location=Oxford

| isbn=0-7506-43315 | page=page 569

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(or picture element) is the smallest part of an image.

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Note the above line-splitting of the 56-line URL (for the webpage in Google Books) uses the [[HTML]] comment tokens "&lt;!--" and "-->". Each part of the footnote coding is placed on a separate line, thereby allowing each part to be indented from the lefthand side. There must be no spaces added to the URL (which is a single string of characters where spaces are coded "%20"). Do not add spaces before "&lt;!--" or after "-->" within the URL. However, when splitting an ''italicized phrase'' or long wikilink ("<nowiki>[[xx xx xx]]</nowiki>"), consider putting a space after "-->" on the 2nd line.

Similar indentation has been used for many decades, as in coding for [[computer programming]], to visually separate sections of text. The indented lines typically reflect a lower-level of details (or lower-level of ''"[[abstraction]]"'' ) than the level of the outer lines. Indenting the footnote coding can help clarify sections of text that contain several footnotes, as is typical in large articles.

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(or picture element) is the smallest part of an image.

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