Wiki Tips: Difference between revisions

In the last contributor meeting, Jane Colmenares said that missing <nowiki><div></nowiki> tags were “vain of her existence.” She was referring to the difficulty of finding missing <nowiki><div></nowiki> or <nowiki></div></nowiki> tags in articles that can really mess up page. It might be for you as well. You can use Ctr F to find all the div tags but it will not help you find matching pairs opening and closing <nowiki><div></nowiki> tags.

Download a free software program called Notepad++. I works just like Notepad which comes with your windows program. Put these four lines of code on a new page in Notepad++. Then save this page with a name you can remember with a “html” extension like so: “some name.html.” You will use it more than once.

Next, download the page in Wikitext code you are having problems with between the &lt;body&gt; tags . Then, highlight the <nowiki><div></nowiki> you think might have a missing <nowiki></div></nowiki> tag. If it’s counterpart exists, you will notice that the it will be highlighted at the same time. If it counterpart is way down the page you may have to scroll down the page to find it.

If you don’t find one, that is the <nowiki><div></nowiki> tag that is missing its <nowiki></div></nowiki>. The same procedure can be used for all tags.