Forum:Nowiki tags

I'm was just wondering how to remove the nowiki tags in this template. Any ideas as to how I may achieve this? . 21:22, August 24, 2011 (UTC)


 * The first thing I'd try is to replace the  tags by    tags. Hunter789 22:09, August 24, 2011 (UTC)


 * I moved the frontward slash to the back of 'nowiki' within the source code, although nothing has changed, the tags are still [inconveniently] there. . 22:35, August 24, 2011 (UTC)


 * tags are html-like tags to tell the wiki engine not to transclude or parse anything within the opening tag and the closing tag . One practice in html/xml is that instead of writing a tag like that    (with nothing inside), one could write it in a shorter fashion . Since what is written in edit pages is not html but wikitext, and since there is no point in writing   tags with nothing inside it, I believe Wikimedia didn't consider parsing and recognizing the   tag.


 * All of this to suggest to add [with a space] before each of those lonely  , as they are currently closing tags without opening ones. Hunter789 23:06, August 24, 2011 (UTC)


 * Which begs the question, what are those tags doing there in the first place? And the ones with only a space inside them? 01:30, August 25, 2011 (UTC)


 * My guess is that a first editor wanted to make sure a space was inserted at a precise location, inserting the   code, then another finding that it was too heavy to read when editing made the   and did not look at the result. But that's just speculation :P Hunter789 01:47, August 25, 2011 (UTC)