#this might be the stupidest question ever but how do I edit my main page in the html language
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you can use some HTML in wikitext, but you can't change it completely to HTML. the img tag is one that's not useable. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:HTML_in_wikitext
MediaWiki is able to parse some HTML tags in wikitext. Brackets for other tags are escaped and the tags are displayed instead of being parsed.
then how do I add a class to elements such as image?
not just images in general
I think that this is the info you need to figure out what is best for your display.
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Editing_Wikitext/Pictures/The_Quick_Course
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images <- this says you can add a class with class= but i've never done that before so not sure how well it works
This page explains the image syntax when editing the wiki.
You or another user must usually upload an image before you can use it on a page.
Images that are stored on a MediaWiki server are usually rendered by using the File: namespace prefix (but the legacy Image: namespace prefix is still supported as a synonym) as the target of a MediaWiki li...