Hi,
some problem I was stating about a week ago already. I just give it another try and hope for help:
Like in the portal-box skeleton template on mediawiki, I'd like to have one template that opens a DIV container and a second one that closes the DIV container. Between the two template calls I could place my content. The DIV container can draw a nice portlet-like border around the content then...
Since this is done exactly that way at mediawiki page and wikipedia, I don't understand why it doesn't work for my installations (1.5.5 each).
The problem is that for every template, mediawiki closes tags that left open. The second template (only the closing DIV) is escaped and appears as clear text.
Does anyone know how to switch off this feature in case it is one?
Thanks a lot, Gerrit
Hi,
I have a page that shows a lot of images thumbs. At the moment I do it this way:
[[Image:Snap_Texturing.png|center|thumb|Texture Mapping]] [[Image:Snap_Colorbar.png|center|thumb|Color Bar]] [[Image:Snap_Isolines.png|center|thumb|Isolines]] [[Image:Snap_Cutplane.png|center|thumb|Cutplane]]
The thumb images are drawn one below the other. I would prefer the images to be side by side.
Is this possible?
Thanks, MB
On 26/01/06, Martin Baumann mailsgetlost@web.de wrote:
The thumb images are drawn one below the other. I would prefer the images to be side by side.
See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Image or, possibly easier to read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax and: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Gallery
(methinks the first of those needs splitting, but I'm not going to start on that now)
-- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]
On 1/26/06, Gerrit Quast gerrit@gerritquast.org wrote:
Hi,
some problem I was stating about a week ago already. I just give it another try and hope for help:
Like in the portal-box skeleton template on mediawiki, I'd like to have one template that opens a DIV container and a second one that closes the DIV container. Between the two template calls I could place my content. The DIV container can draw a nice portlet-like border around the content then...
Since this is done exactly that way at mediawiki page and wikipedia, I don't understand why it doesn't work for my installations (1.5.5 each).
The problem is that for every template, mediawiki closes tags that left open. The second template (only the closing DIV) is escaped and appears as clear text.
Does anyone know how to switch off this feature in case it is one?
Not that it helps, but this sounds very much like a question which someone asked a month or more ago, and never as far as I know got answered.
Keep in mind that the wikimedia foundation websites are usually running the latest development code or quite close to it, so that 1.5.x installations might not behave in exactly the same way as wikipedia or it's kin.
-- Rick DeNatale
Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/
Gerrit Quast wrote:
The problem is that for every template, mediawiki closes tags that left open. The second template (only the closing DIV) is escaped and appears as clear text.
IIRC, there's a bug in the parser cleanup when HTML Tidy is enabled which causes it to _not_ close the open tags for each template.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On 1/26/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Gerrit Quast wrote:
The problem is that for every template, mediawiki closes tags that left open. The second template (only the closing DIV) is escaped and appears as clear text.
IIRC, there's a bug in the parser cleanup when HTML Tidy is enabled which causes it to _not_ close the open tags for each template.
Of course one man's bug is another feature.
If so it looks like it's a bug which is being used by the Portal templates on wikipedia.
Someone asked a month or so ago why some of the wikipedia portal templates weren't working the same way on their installation as they did on wikipedia.
Have a look at the template: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Box-header&action=edit
It leaves an open <div> to be closed by another template: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Box-footer&action=edit
-- Rick DeNatale
Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/
Rick DeNatale wrote:
On 1/26/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Gerrit Quast wrote:
The problem is that for every template, mediawiki closes tags that left open. The second template (only the closing DIV) is escaped and appears as clear text.
IIRC, there's a bug in the parser cleanup when HTML Tidy is enabled which causes it to _not_ close the open tags for each template.
Of course one man's bug is another feature.
Well, that "feature" will break, badly, in future versions of MediaWiki which fix up the parser.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On 1/26/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Rick DeNatale wrote:
On 1/26/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Gerrit Quast wrote:
The problem is that for every template, mediawiki closes tags that left open. The second template (only the closing DIV) is escaped and appears as clear text.
IIRC, there's a bug in the parser cleanup when HTML Tidy is enabled which causes it to _not_ close the open tags for each template.
Of course one man's bug is another feature.
Well, that "feature" will break, badly, in future versions of MediaWiki which fix up the parser.
I don't use it myself, but when it breaks, it's going to break a LOT of portal pages on wikipedia.
-- Rick DeNatale
Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/
Hi crew,
great to finally get a discussion on that topic.
I of course see the point of fixing broken tags in templates to keep the generated HTML clean. But besides tags that are left unclosed accidentally, we have a real use case for this as we see for the box template.
Since I'm not too long into wiki usage, the suggestion might be wrong, but maybe it could solve this issue: A flag that turns on/off the parser's "error handling" by adding something like __DO_NOT_FIX_TAGS__ would be cool. Feasible or not?
Thanks, Gerrit
On 1/27/06, Rick DeNatale rick.denatale@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/26/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Rick DeNatale wrote:
On 1/26/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Gerrit Quast wrote:
The problem is that for every template, mediawiki closes tags that left open. The second template (only the closing DIV) is escaped and appears as clear text.
IIRC, there's a bug in the parser cleanup when HTML Tidy is enabled which causes it to _not_ close the open tags for each template.
Of course one man's bug is another feature.
Well, that "feature" will break, badly, in future versions of MediaWiki which fix up the parser.
I don't use it myself, but when it breaks, it's going to break a LOT of portal pages on wikipedia.
-- Rick DeNatale
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