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This category contains all pages tagged by {{cleanup HTML}}.

Cleanup instructions

Don't know which HTML tag is unwanted? Click the "Edit source" tab on the article page, and search (Ctrl+f in most web browsers) for the following. If you don't find any, feel free to remove the {{cleanup HTML}} tag.

Here's what to do about each:

• <tt> - Obsolete; use <code>, <kbd>, <samp>, <var>or{{mono}} instead, or even better {{code}}, {{kbd}}, {{var}}, or {{samp}}. See Wikipedia:HTML5#tt.
• <li>, <ol>, and <ul> - Use "* " or "# " instead, or footnote syntax. <ol> is used legitimately with the "start" attribute to control numbering. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists.
• <table>, <tr>, <td>, <th>, <caption> - Convert to wiki syntax; see Help:Table.
• <i> or <em> - Use '' (for typography) or {{em}} (for emphasis where italics otherwise not required); be sure to follow MOS:ITALICS.
• <dd>, <dt>, and <dl> - convert to definition list following MOS:DLIST.
• <cite> - Use <ref> instead if this is defining a footnote, or perhaps a Wikipedia:Citation template if this trying to format the contents of a footnote. See Wikipedia:HTML5#cite for more on how to fix misuse.
• <p> - Can just use an empty line between paragraphs.
• <strong> and <b> - Use ''' instead, or remove bolding if MOS:BOLD says bolding isn't needed. In unusual cases, use {{strong}}.
• <name=> - Usually a broken <ref name=...>
• </br> - Should be <br /> to be valid HTML. Any other variations like <br>, <br/> and <br > can also be changed to <br /> so that syntax highlighting will work, but only do this if you are making other changes. If possible, use a blank line or list formatting instead. See Help:Line-break handling.
• <hr> and <hr/> - Drop or use ----
• <font> - obsolete; see Wikipedia:HTML 5#font for cleanup instructions.}, or <blockquote> - see MOS:QUOTATIONS.
• <wbr> - Rarely needed, but if necessary {{shy}} is preferred over this and &shy;. See Help:Line-break handling.
• <ruby>, <rt>, and <rp> - Templates are preferred for simplicity. See Help:HTML in wikitext#rp, rt, ruby for replacements.
• <abbr> - Use {{abbr}}

More info

Question about an HTML tag or wiki syntax not covered above? See:

• Help:HTML in wikitext for a canonical list of HTML tags and some wiki equivalents
• Help:Wikitext for more comprehensive wiki syntax how-to and more equivalents

Finding more articles to clean

Automated reports on database dumps, and links to live search results are available at Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss#HTML tags.