[Mediawiki-l] template weirdness

[Jan Steinman]

Do templates force-close any opening tags?

I'm trying to make templates for a simple hierarchical link list, 
something like {{menu top}} that opens a <div> and <font>, one or more 
intermedate {{menu this}} {{menu that}} templates that provide a second 
set of links, based on the same <div> and <font>, then a {{menu close}} 
that does the </div> and </font>.

But it looks like the {{menu top}} is getting closed off with 
"</font></p></div>", even though I did no such thing.

Is there any way around this sort of behavior?

(MediaWiki 1.4)

:::: A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on 
military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching 
spiritual doom. Martin Luther King, Jr.
:::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Item/003AA15>