VaultWiki Pre-Defined BB-Codes

**Hilary** · August 14, 2008

Hey - success! The only thing I haven't been able to do is control vertical alignment in the table cells. Is that possible?

Thanks for the edit (just noticed it was you).

By the way, quick reply here is behaving strangely: after posting I see not the post I made, but a few lines of code about 'newreply'. Refreshing the page shows the post is there.

**vimto** · August 14, 2008

I'm also having problems with valign.....and also colspan, are these possible?

**pegasus** · August 14, 2008

Yes, we are currently having Quick Reply output the code to tell us what happened when the AJAX Double Post bug would occur. Unfortunately this is an error at the system level and does not appear to be associated with any code in VaultWiki or vBulletin.

As for valign, colspan, and the like... You would start a table cell normally by placing it on a separate line. However you would add a second | to separate the properties from the cell content. As seen in NickyPhils's example:

Code:

|rowspan="5"|Nick Phillips

To add valign as well you would just put a space after the rowspan definition. The | would signify that actual content is starting.

Code:

|rowspan="5" valign="top"|Nick Phillips

The properties allowed, classes allowed (class="XX"), and styles allowed (style="XX"), are controllable via the stuff in special_class_table.php.

**Hilary** · August 14, 2008

More success - great! It seems to be

Code:

valign=top

that works, though, without the "quotes".

**pegasus** · August 14, 2008

If you are saying that: if you use quotes, valign does not work. Then that would be a bug and you should report it as such.

**beduino** · November 29, 2008

tks for this
joao barroca
aka beduino

**mafioso** · February 6, 2009

Jesus. What is this???

Footnotes do not work. A number is inserted, but the footnote is not there.

And most importantly: What's the code for autolink creation?
On wikipedia, you are able to create a link to a page with [[linktext]].
This is the most valuable tool in wiki that leverages its use above a simple article system.
If this feature is missing in your script, it is not a wiki.

**vimto** · February 6, 2009

I would just use [ wiki ]article title here[ /wiki ] (without the spaces)

**pegasus** · February 6, 2009

Originally Posted by mafioso

Footnotes do not work. A number is inserted, but the footnote is not there.

I think you neglected to read the next header after the footnote explanation. You need to use reflist to show the list of all footnotes. Otherwise it doesn't know where you want them.

Originally Posted by mafioso

And most importantly: What's the code for autolink creation?

There is no code for autolink creation. That's why they are called autolinks.

Originally Posted by mafioso

On wikipedia, you are able to create a link to a page with [[linktext]].
This is the most valuable tool in wiki that leverages its use above a simple article system.
If this feature is missing in your script, it is not a wiki.

You need to check your settings in the Namespace Manager to find the tag for creating links to pages in the various namespaces.

**tommythejoat** · March 21, 2009

I think I understand how Special works now, but I do not know how to invoke it except as a tag. Is there some way to just browse the special pages? If I even knew their names I could experiment with it a bit more. I would guess that information is buried here somewhere, but I have been looking for half an hour with no success.

**tommythejoat** · March 21, 2009

I tried just using the example you gave of Special Pages using a parameter (filled in through the parameter box and button approach). I tried it with and without a space in the name.

Help:Special Pages
$s are utilities that provide information about the operation of the wiki. This is an experiment at accessing the pages. I do not yet know all their names.

Showing the tag indicates that the specialpages name is not supported here. I will try it $s and see if that works.

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I think the $s must be your code shorthand for "I am lost."

I will move on to something else in the setup until I hear back about the feature.

**tommythejoat** · March 21, 2009

How about that!! On this site the tag is resolved to a page that says the page is missing, but gives me the long sought link to the special pages descriptions. Is that link on my board also? Special pages edit function in Admin CP does not seem to point to anything. All I can do is change the name, tag and description. There is nothing about where the pages are.

**pegasus** · March 21, 2009

I think the BB-Code issue may be related to a bug that we fixed for 2.2.1. The pages do not physically exist. You can access them from the wiki drop-down menu from any of your other articles. Click the "Special pages" link.

**tommythejoat** · March 21, 2009

On your site the Vault drop down list the nav bar displays the special pages link.

On my site the Default drop down list in the nav bar only displays List and Post New Article.

Is there some setting that is missing? I don't see anything except the check box to display the menu. Nothing to say what its content should be.

Is 2.2.1 stable? Seems odd to me that this is not working in the stable release.

**pegasus** · March 22, 2009

2.2.1 says Unstable at the download link. Even so, this should work. If you are not seeing the Special pages in the drop-down, you need to give your usergroups permission for the pages. Under Usergroup Permissions, look for "Special Page Permissions".