Forum:Template usage rant



Please do not put templates with  tags or tables (this includes all userboxes and message boxes) in lists. While this has nothing to do with XHTML validation (  and   can be used inside a  ), it confuses the wikitext parser. As you can see, the formatting on this page is broken. It produces an unclosed  tag, which, coupled with a lenient parser (which MediaWiki uses even in Firefox, even though it has a strict XML parser), is responsible for the effect you see on this very page. These kinds of layout errors are hard to fix because it requires removing chunks of text from the page and reloading it to localize the problem. - Sikon 10:00, 2 April 2007 (UTC)