Help:HTML in wikitext
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Permitted HTML
The following HTML elements are currently permitted:
For many HTML elements, more convenient wikitext code is available, see Help:Editing. On the other hand, HTML tags allow an id that can be referenced in one's user style css, and allows the tag to be used as link target.
For example, the anchor element <a> is not allowed, so the wikitext
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<a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/">Main Page</a>
is treated like the wikitext
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<a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/">Main Page</a>
and is therefore displayed as
- <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/">Main Page</a>
which is unlikely to be what the editor intended. Instead of using the anchor element (<a>) the wiki markup for external reference is recommended (enclosed in square brackets with the URL separated from the contents by a single space):
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[http://meta.wikimedia.org/ Main Page]
displays as:
Attributes
Most tags can have a style attribute. For example:
<div style="font-size:80%"> This is <span style="color:red">red</span> text. </div>
produces:
This is red text.
Additional information
See: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:HTML_in_wikitext
