[WikiEN-l] Template HTML fixups coming this week

Fri Jun 9 19:01:29 UTC 2006

On 6/6/06, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Problem templates are mostly those which start an HTML tag in one
> template, then
> finish it in another. For instance if {{table-header}} contains a <table>,
> and
> then the table rows and final </table> are in another template entirely.
> These
> have always broken on regular MediaWiki -- the template is required to
> close its
> own tags -- though they sometimes appeared to work on Wikipedia due to
> bugs with
> our HTML handling when Tidy is enabled.
>

Does this affect templates that use a <div> tag in one and a </div> tag in
another? This affects many voting archive templates, such as {{at}}/{{ab}}
or {{rfaf}}/{{rfab}}.