I expect the extra empty paragraph has something to do with the extra newlines created by missing parameters, I use a little trick to only add newlines when needed, use something like this:

{| |- |Day |Event{{#if:{{{1|}}}|<nowiki/> {{!}}- {{!}}1 {{!}}{{{1}}} }}{{#if:{{{2|}}}|<nowiki/> {{!}}- {{!}}2 {{!}}{{{2}}} }}{{#if:{{{3|}}}|<nowiki/> {{!}}- {{!}}3 {{!}}{{{3}}} }}{{#if:{{{4|}}}|<nowiki/> {{!}}- {{!}}4 {{!}}{{{4}}}}} |}

In simple terms, the <nowiki/> causes the newline after it to not be stripped out. That way the newline only shows up when the parameter is used, and you don't get extra newlines which would create those extra paragraphs.

~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of The Gaiapedia, Wikia Graphical Entertainment Project, and Wiki-Tools.com

Emanuele D'Arrigo wrote:

Hi everybody!

Given the following template use:

{{MonthListing |month=July |2=Manu.d birthday (1974) |9=Goofy.g birthday (1932) |15=Mickey.m birthday (1928) |17=Siggraph start |24=Siggraph ends }}

and given the following template code:

{| |- |Day |Event {{#if:{{{1|}}}|{{!}}- {{!}}1 {{!}}{{{1}}}}} {{#if:{{{2|}}}|{{!}}- {{!}}2 {{!}}{{{2}}}}} {{#if:{{{3|}}}|{{!}}- {{!}}3 {{!}}{{{3}}}}} {{#if:{{{4|}}}|{{!}}- {{!}}4 {{!}}{{{4}}}}} |}

I obtain the following HTML:

<table>

<tr> <td>Day </td><td>Event

</td></tr> <tr> <td>2 </td><td>Manu.d birthday (1974) <p><br /> </p> </td></tr></table>

which all looks nice and dandy except for that

<p><br /> </p>

I have no idea where those tags come from. I mean, they come from:

{{#if:{{{4|}}}|{{!}}- {{!}}4 {{!}}{{{4}}}}}

because they are not there if I remove that snippet. But why 1 and 3 don't do the same?

Is it because I'm using numerical parameter names and there's an ambiguity between parameter "4" and the fourth parameter? Are there workarounds?

Manu

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