How to write code or unformated free text on Wikihowto and other MediaWiki pages

Using pre tags
You can use the  tag like in HTML/XHTML. This is handy for showing pieces of code or preformatted indented text.




 * here you write the text



Example: here you write the text, HTML tags or
 * Other notes

You have some limitations however, you cannot use inside th text, also some wiki tags do not work. Take a look here for an example.

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