On 1/26/06, Brion Vibber <brion(a)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
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