Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:33:07 UTC
Building a table and following the instructions at metawiki, I used {{prettytable}} to format a table. On the rendered page, an extra ">" hung between the caption of the table and the table itself. Removing the "{{prettytable}}" fixed the error (and I guess {{prettytable}} is the default table formatting because it didn't change the looks of the table to remove that) I searched through all the files to try to find where the heck {{prettytable}} lived, but I had no luck.
The code {{prettytable}} just means "insert the contents of the page [[Template:Prettytable]] here", so if you haven't created such a template, it should have no effect. See [[meta:Help:Template]]; I've re-worded the section of [[meta:Help:Table]] that refers to this to hopefully make clearer that this is not some built-in part of the software, just an example of a useful trick. Meanwhile, using the non-existent template in the middle of the table syntax appears to have confused the parser somewhat, hence the extra ">". That could be considered a bug, but it's not something that ever *needs* to work, and solving it is likely to create more serious problems.
This creates invalid markup, from the link replacement borking: <table <!-- -->>
New HTML sanitizer in 1.5 handles this correctly: http://test.leuksman.com/index.php/2050 Resolving as FIXED.
