Use <nowiki><table></nowiki>.
Dave Howorth wrote:
Elliott F. Cable wrote:
I have one page where I'm documenting how some of my code works. It's Javascript so the text is liberally scattered with HTML tags that I'm discussing. But mediawiki is *interpreting* these tags as HTML! I see that this is a feature from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Help:Editing and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:HTML_in_wikitext even tells me which tags are affected. But I can't find anywhere that tells me how to turn this feature off when I don't want it. How can I write text that includes HTML tags as literals?
<pre> <---- Makes text look like code, but I expect you know that. <nowiki> <--- Turns off wiki. Totally. Everything below here will appear AS YOU TYPE IT. function thisIsCode() { $done = true; return true; } </nowiki> <--- Turns back on wiki. Continues as normal. </pre> <--- closes code block.
I probably didn't explain very well. The HTML tags are embedded in text. Here's a typical sample:
"The normal solution for a single-line input choice is a <select> element, but these aren't too good at displaying large text fields such as the description and don't allow nice formatting to separate fields. So I was using a <table> with an <input type="radio"> column but that takes up too much screen real estate."
The <table> tag completely screws the page. I want wiki formatting turned *on* so that I can use text styling as normal. But I don't want HTML tags interpreted at all. What I want is something like <nohtml> ... </nohtml>.
I think your suggestion has me typing <pre><table></pre> everywhere, which doesn't seem to fit with the wiki notion of simple text preparation. Plus. it doesn't actually work! It makes the text look like this:
"The normal solution for a single-line input choice is a <select> element, but these aren't too good at displaying large text fields such as the description and don't allow nice formatting to separate fields. So I was using a
<table>
with an <input type="radio"> column but that takes up too much screen real estate."
The least annoying workaround I've found so far is to write all the tags like this: < table >. But that's a PITA as well.
Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l