Help:Signature

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Here's how to create a signature:

Base Creation

1. Create a page for your signature here.

2. Edit the page and insert this text:

[[User:Username|Username]]

(replacing "Username" with your username)

Customization

This section provides information about optional modifications to your signature. If you want your signature to consist simply of a link to your user page, skip down to Preparing for Usage.

Note: Be sure to follow all rules outlined in HRWiki:Signature.

Colors and fonts

If you want your name to be colored or have a different font, insert this text instead of the text in number two:

[[User:Username|<span style="font-family:font; color:#hexcode;">
Username</span>]]

Links to user talk and user contributions pages

If you want to link to your talk page and your contributions page, insert this text after the text in numbers two or three:

([[User talk:Username|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Username|edits]])

Images

If you want to add a small image (must be no larger than 20 pixels in height), insert the text

[[Image:Sample.png|20px]]

either before or after the link to your user page, replacing "Sample.png" with the name of the desired image. You may upload a personal image for your signature if desired. Note that the above text |20px only guarantees that the image will be 20 pixels in width — you may need to tweak this quantity to ensure that the displayed image is no greater than 20 pixels in height.

Changing the target of images' links

If you want to make it so that clicking on an image in your signature links to, for example, your user page, follow the following instructions. Add the image the way you would like it to appear as above, and click "Show preview". Right-click (or CTRL+click for Mac users) the image and choose to open it in a new window. Copy the full URL to the image from the address bar, hereafter referred to as "IMAGELINK". Then, return to editing your signature page and replace [[Image:...]] with

<span class="plainlinks">[IMAGELINK http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/PAGETITLE]</span>

where "PAGETITLE" is the title of the page on the wiki that you want the image to link to (for example, "User:Username").

Preventing signature breakup

A signature with spaces in it will often be broken up when it appears near the end of a line. To prevent this, put the following code around your signature:

<span style="white-space: nowrap"> THE REST OF YOUR SIGNATURE </span>

Preparing for Usage

Once you have the signature created the way you want it, save the edit. Then go to your preferences page, and change the text in the "Your nickname (for signatures)" box to this:

{{User:Username/sig}}

Make sure the "" option is checked, then save your preferences and empty your cache.

Usage

Now that your signature is set up, know how to work it:

Code	Turns into	Appears as	Mainly used for
~~~	{{User:User/sig}}	User (Talk | contribs)	STUFF, welcoming
~~~~	{{User:User/sig}} 00:00, 1 January 2000 (UTC)	User (Talk | contribs) 00:00, 1 January 2000 (UTC)	talk pages
~~~~~	00:00, 1 January 2000 (UTC)	00:00, 1 January 2000 (UTC)	welcoming, recording of date and time