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</nowiki></pre></td>|-</tr><tr><td>| [[enEn:newline|Newline]]: A singlenewlinehas noeffect on thelayout.
But an empty linestarts a new paragraphA single newline has no effect on the layout.
(<nowiki><p></nowiki> disables this paragraphing until <nowiki></p></nowiki> or the end of the section)But an empty line starts a new paragraph.
</td><td><pre><nowiki>(in Cologne Blue two newlines and a div tag give just one newline; in the order newline, div tag, newline, the result is two newlines)
</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>* Lists are easy to do:
</nowiki></pre></td>|-</tr><tr><td>| # Numbered lists are also good## very organized## easy to follow#A newline#in a list marks the end of the list. #New numbering starts
</td><td>| <pre><nowiki># Numbered lists are also good
</nowiki></pre>|-| *You can even do mixed lists *#and nest them *#*like this</tdbr>or have newlines</trbr>inside lists<tr>| <tdpre>* You can even do mixed lists
</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>* You can also**break lines<<br>>inside lists<<br>>like this</nowiki></pre></td></tr>|-<tr><td>| ; Definition list : list of definitions; item : the item's definition</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>; Definition list : list
* This is primarily for displayed material, but is also used for discussion on [[Help:Talk page|Talk page]]s.</td><td><pre><nowiki>: A colon indents a line or paragraph.A manual newline starts a new paragraph.</nowiki></pre></td></tr><tr |- valign="top><td>"| <pre><nowiki>IF a line of plain text starts with a space THEN
Mainly useful for separating threads on Talk pages.</td><td>| <pre><nowiki>A horizontal dividing line: above
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=== Sections, paragraphs, lists and lines ===<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tr><th>What it looks like</th><th>What you type</th></tr><tr><td>Start your sections with header lines:
{| cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="1"|-! What it looks like! What you type|-| Start your sections with header lines: <!-- This is the original
== New section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
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<h2> New section </h2>
<h3> Subsection </h3>
<h4> Sub-subsection </h4>
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== New section ==
==== Sub-subsection ====
(in Cologne Blue two newlines and a div tag give just one newline; in <nowiki><p></nowiki> disables this paragraphing until <nowiki></p></nowiki> or the order newline, div tag, newline, end of the result is two newlinessection)
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A single
newline
But an empty line
starts a new paragraph.</nowiki></pre></td></tr><tr |- valign="top"><td>| You can break lines<br>without starting a new paragraph.<p>Sufficient as wikitext code is <br>, the XHTML code <br /> is not needed, the system produces this code.</p></td> <td>| <pre><nowiki>You can break lines<<br>>without starting a new paragraph.</nowiki></pre></td>|-</tr><tr><td>| * Lists are easy to do:** start every line with a star*** more stars means deeper levels*A newline*in a list marks the end of the list. *Of course*you can
*start again.
** start every line with a star
*** more stars means deeper levels
*start again.
#with 1.
## very organized
## easy to follow
#New numbering starts
#with 1.
*# and nest them
*#* like this<<br>>or have newlines<<br>>inside lists</td><td><pre><nowiki>* You can even do mixed lists*# and nest them|-*#* like this<br>or have newlines<br>inside lists</nowiki></pre></td></tr><tr><td>| * You can also
**break lines<br>inside lists<br>like this
of definitions
; item : the item's definition</nowiki></pre></td>|-</tr><tr><td>|
:A colon indents a line or paragraph.
A manual newline starts a new paragraph.
*This is primarily for displayed material, but is also used for discussion on [[Help:Talk page|Talk pages]].
| <pre>: A colon indents a line or paragraph.
A manual newline starts a new paragraph.
it will be formatted exactly
as typed;
* program source code
* ASCII art;
* chemical structures;</nowiki></pre> WARNING If you make it wide,you [[enEn:page widening|force the whole page to be wide]] andhence less readable. Never start ordinary lines with spaces.<br><center>(see also below)</center></td><td>| <pre><nowiki> IF a line of plain text starts with a space THEN
it will be formatted exactly
as typed;
* program source code
* ASCII art;
* chemical structures;</nowiki></pre></td></tr><tr |- valign="top"><td>| <center>Centered text.</center></td><td>| <pre><nowiki><<center>>Centered text.<</center></nowiki>></pre></td></tr>|-<tr><td>| A [[enEn:horizontal dividing line|horizontal dividing line]]: above
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and below. Mainly useful for separating threads on Talk pages.
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and below. </nowiki></pre></td></tr></table>|}
Summarizing the effect of a single newline: no effect in general, but it ends a list item or indented part; thus changing some text into a list item, or indenting it, is more cumbersome if it contains newlines, they have to be removed; see also [[wW:Wikipedia:Don't use line breaks]].
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