User:Bethcottam/sandbox/Patrolling

Problem Examples
Below are 10 examples of pages with coding issues. Please put the pages in your sandbox and then see if you can find the problem. This is the actual page that was used for these problems. P.S.You might see some formatting or grammar or spelling problems on this page. That is not what we are to be looking for - just Wikitext coding problems.
 * Help:Wiki Coding Problems - One
 * Help:Wiki Coding Problems - Two
 * Help:Wiki Coding Problems - Three
 * Help:Wiki Coding Problems - Four
 * Help:Wiki Coding Problems - Five
 * Help:Wiki Coding Problems - Six
 * Help:Wiki Coding Problems - Seven
 * Help:Wiki Coding Problems - Eight
 * Help:Wiki Coding Problems - Nine
 * Help:Wiki Coding Problems - Ten
 * Answer sheet

Wiki Text Coding ....Look for Errors while patrolling:
This is text placed between opening and closing div tags with padding and light green color attributes. ....

style="background-color:lightgreen; padding:5px;">This is text placed between opening and closing div tags with padding and light green color attributes without the opening tag. ....

This is text placed between opening and closing div tags with padding and light blue color attributes.....

This is text placed between opening and closing div tags with padding and light blue color attributeswithout the closing tag. .....

The text above should be placed between both opening and closing div tags in order for the text below it to be without a background color.

(Frequently the closing div tag is left out or mis-typed. All kinds of crazy things can happen; but the one problem you often see is the sidebars disappear. You will find them at the very bottom of the page. Obviously you need to find where this missing div tag needs to go.)

Importance of Table tags:
Example with proper Table tags:

Examples without proper Table tags:

breadcrumb }}
 * link1=United States
 * link2=Missouri
 * link3=
 * link4=
 * link5=Adair County

and

{{breadcrumb
 * link1=United States
 * link2=Missouri
 * link3=
 * link4=
 * link5=Adair County

Example of too large of image:


Example of how to reduce Image:



Bold and italic tags
This is bold text placed between opening and closing 

This is italicized text placed between opening and closing 

Problem:

Text inside a light gray border box
like this

A space has been placed between the first word of a text and the left side of the page.

Solution: Remove the extra space between left side of page and first word:

A space has been placed between the first word of a text and the left side of the page.

Alignment problems:
This title is centered

This title is on the right

This title is on the left

Examples of Broken Links:

Broken links


Wikipedia

[Missouri Genealogy|Missouri]

Missouri



Wikipedia

Missouri GenealogyMissouri

Missouri

[Wikipedia]

Wikipedia

Missouri Geneology Missouri

Missouri