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Does wiki support CSS? If so that would be the easiest way to do it.
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From: "Gaurav Chaturvedi" <mesaana@gmail.com>
To: <mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 7:24 PM
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] nice grey dashed boxes


> You know how on the Wikipedia.com encyclopedia they have those nice
> grey boxes with dashed borders to show code? How do you make those?
> I know how to make regular tables..but is there any predefined
> tablecode for that specific table, or do I have to adjust the XHTML
> style for each and every table to get that exact look? Thanks!
>
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Hi,

> You know how on the Wikipedia.com encyclopedia they have those nice
> grey boxes with dashed borders to show code? How do you make those?

It was default on my (current) mediawiki installation with
<pre>...</pre> and monobook style.

Patrick

> > You know how on the Wikipedia.com encyclopedia they have those nice
> > grey boxes with dashed borders to show code? How do you make those?
>
> It was default on my (current) mediawiki installation with
> <pre>...</pre> and monobook style.

Yep, that's the trick: they're not tables, but the CSS rule that the
MonoBook skin applies to <pre> (and <code>, too, I think) blocks. The
nice-'n'-easy wiki syntax for those is putting a space at the
beginning of each line of text/code/whatever. Consecutive lines that
all have a space in front of them will be treated as one block of
pre-formatted text, and thus have one nice big grey dotty border round
them.

HTH
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