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It looks like the nowiki tag in wH creates a DIV when it’s invoked in an article. If you use the nowiki tag in-line, it produces a line-break, which may not be intended. Is there a way to mirror the behavior of this to what wikipedia does? I believe it simply doesn’t render the code within the tags. Or at the very least, convert the div to a span to keep it from creating a newline.

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There might be a way - the engineers can probably speak to that - but this is not a problem I’ve ever heard of someone running into. Can you explain the situation you have where using nowiki tags is messing up the formatting of the article? There might be other ways to get around it.

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You can see here: http://www.wikihow.com/User:Sohmc/Sandbox/Use-your-own-Router-with-Verizon-FiOS I don’t want wikihow to link 192.168.1.1 address since it doesn’t exist.

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Unfortunately we have to wrap the <nowiki> tags in a div so the HTML5 editor recognizes that they are nowiki tags when converting the HTML back into wikitext. Sorry.</nowiki>

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what about changing the behavior so that it uses span instead of div? At least with span, it wouldn’t create a line break.

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My way around the automatic linking is to use the html code for a colon ( #58 for the curious).

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i had this problem here, at http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Started-Editing-and-Writing-on-wikiHow , in trying to publish directions for “Headings” and “subheadings”…when I went to the page to grab it, I noticed it had been fixed by inserting “==” (the quotation marks), but step 11, describing bold and italics, is still showing breaks…I’d love more instruction on how to use #58 .

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Bbyrd009 & #58 is an HTML code form the colon. Basically, because the wiki software looks for http://www.example.com , replacing the colon with & #58 defeats the search, but still allows for the URL to be displayed properly. If you want to do the same thing, you’ll have to find what the HTML code for the equals sign would be (& #61 )

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ha. ended up using it for impersonating a {, which works, as long as you only use it once? awesome though, cleans up an article. ty! (step #9 , http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Started-Editing-and-Writing-on-wikiHow )