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Engine tags

Beyond wiki markup, pages can use a set of HTML-like tags the engine implements itself. This section documents each one; this page is the map.

TagWhat it does
<ref> / <note>Footnotes with an automatic list, and hover-only notes — References & notes
<youtube>An embedded YouTube player — YouTube
<googlemap>An embedded Google map — Google Maps
<gallery>An image grid from a list of files — see Images & files
<nowiki> / <pre> / <code> / <syntaxhighlight> / <math>Literal text and code — Code, pre & math
<style>Per-article CSS, scoped to the article — Scoped styles
<description>The page’s summary line (renders nothing) — below
<noinclude> / <includeonly> / <onlyinclude>Control what an included page shares — Include control

<description>

A page may declare a one-line summary anywhere in its source:

<description>Rome was the capital of the Roman Empire.</description>

It renders nothing on the page. The engine stores it and uses it as the hover preview when other pages link here, and as the page’s description in the title-bar toggle.

Plain HTML

A curated set of ordinary HTML tags is also allowed in pages — div, span, blockquote, ruby, sub/sup, and friends — with sanitized attributes. The full machine-generated list lives in HTML & CSS.

Different from MediaWiki: raw <a> and <img> are never allowed — they render as escaped text. Links are written as [[Page]] / [https://… label], images as ![[File.png]].

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