Just as further follow-up ..

1) if you use actual HTML table then the blank line is not necessary. Problem only exists using Wiki format table 2) if you use <br/> the template works but there is also a blank line. So instead put a comment on the first line, then a blank line then the table starts on line 3.

Example:

---------------------------- top of editpage ---------------------- <!-- comment line 1 -->

{| Some stuff Some stuff ....

)

Hope this helps someone else ..

Thanks

DSig David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation PICK Guy 206-770-5585 davesigafoos@sanmar.com

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dave Sigafoos Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 6:47 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Understanding Templates - inuse

Thanks for that.

What we found is that IF the template has a <br/> or 2 carriage returns (one gets stripped automatically) then the template works correctly. If not .. not.

If we put the <br/> or 2 blank lines in the caller the template still did not work ..

So .. the template has to be set up right with a blank line at the beginning.

This is *specific* to inuse and underconstruction which are primarily a table (from wikipedia)

DSig David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation PICK Guy 206-770-5585 davesigafoos@sanmar.com

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jim Wilson Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 12:58 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Understanding Templates - inuse

MediaWiki only recognizes the "{|" table mneumonic when it's the first thing on a line.

So if your template starts out with "{|" - that's fine, but the caller also has to align things in such a way that the result starts a line. So this should work:

{{inuse}}

While this probably wouldn't:

Some text {{inuse}}

You can get around this by inserting a leading return character (newline) at the beginning of your Template:Inuse article. (unless MW strips leading whitespace, but I don't think it does).

-- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)

On 6/4/07, Dave Sigafoos davesigafoos@sanmar.com wrote:

We are moving into templates and so using the 'inuse' template that

was

suggested to me last week ..

I exported and imported I saved/uploaded image

After a little fitzing (technical term for not sure what's happening

:)

when preview/view Template:inuse it looks really nice.

Now I put it in a page and before the image I get

{| class="messagebox plainlinks" id="inuse" style="border: 1px solid #5A8261; background-color: #CCFFCC;" |- | style="width: 70px" |

Then the image and then the text

Ideas on why it would look different when viewing the template direct than it does when you {{inuse}}

Thanks

DSig David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation PICK Guy 206-770-5585 davesigafoos@sanmar.com

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