Throughout MDN, there are various document structures that are used repeatedly, to provide consistent presentation of information in MDN articles. Here are articles describing these structures, so that, as an MDN author, you can recognize, apply, and modify them as appropriate for documents you write, edit, or translate.
- Banners and notices
- Sometimes, an article needs a special notice added to it. This might happen if the page covers obsolete technology, or if it's about something experimental that shouldn't be used in production code. This article covers the most common such cases and what to do.
- Compatibility tables
- We have standardized the appearance of compatibility tables for our open web documentation; that is, documentation of technologies such as the DOM, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG, and so forth, that are shared across all browsers.
- Live samples
- MDN supports turning sample code displayed in articles into running samples the reader can look at in action. These live samples can include HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in any combination.
- Macros
- The Kuma platform on which MDN runs provides a powerful macro system, KumaScript, which makes it possible to do a wide variety of things automatically. This article provides information on how to invoke MDN's macros within articles.
- Page types
- There are a number of types of pages that are used repeatedly on MDN. This article describes these page types, their purposes, and gives examples of each.
- Quicklinks
- MDN supports adding quicklinks to pages; these are boxes containing a potentially hierarchical list of links to other pages on MDN or to pages off-site. This article describes how to create quicklinks boxes.
- Specification tables
- Every reference page on MDN should provide information about the specification or specifications in which that API or technology was defined. This article demonstrates what these tables look like and explains how to construct them.