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Every image should have a brief description text. This enables blind Wikipedians using a screen reader to know what the image is about. "Star" is the descriptive word in this case. [[:File:Cscr-featured.png]] Add a colon before Image to create a link to an image. File:Cscr-featured.png
The first default parameter uses {{PAGENAME}} to find your username. If your unified login name is not the same, replace "username here" appropriately. The "background" parameter, if not included, defaults to #E0E8EF ( dark grey, see Web colors#Hex triplet) The "border" parameter, if not included, also defaults to #E0E8EF.
For large amounts of caption text, use text-align:left; to make it left-justified. Alternate text is optional but recommended. See Alternate text for images for hints on writing good alternate text. To have some text to the left of an image, and then some more text below the image, then put in a single <br clear="all">. This will force ...
This is done through custom Cascading Style Sheets stored in subpages of the user's "User" page. E.g. To create your own CSS modifications for the skin you are presently using, create a page at Special:MyPage/skin.css containing the CSS you want to use (to apply your changes regardless which skin you are using, put them in Special:MyPage/common ...
Place the image on the left side of the page. The article text that follows the image flows around the image, but there may be formatting issues with lists and indented text (see § Interaction between left-floating images and lists). center Place the image in the center of the page. The article text that follows the image is placed below the ...
Note: To achieve a plain image with a caption, one can use {{Plain image with caption}}. The caption is automatically added as the image's title and alt text, and any wiki markup used on it will be correctly displayed on the caption, but will be automatically stripped down from the alt and title text. See an example here.
To view and edit a page using wiki markup, click Edit or Edit source at the top of any page. This will allow you to type text that you want to add, using wiki markup to format the text and to add other elements like images and tables that are explained later in this tutorial. Wiki markup can initially seem intimidating (especially references ...
Userboxes can have one or two sideboxes. A userbox (commonly abbreviated as UBX) is a small colored box (see examples to the right) designed to appear only on a Wikipedian's user page as a communicative notice about the user, in order to directly or indirectly help Wikipedians collaborate more effectively on articles.