Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-32690351-20180528054407/@comment-96.230.100.243-20180528081153

In the future, when you want to show "raw" mediawiki markup, you can use either pre or nowiki tags. For example: &#x003C;nowiki>This example of how to show | using nowiki is, itself, using pre.&#x003C;/nowiki> Produces: This example of how to show | using nowiki is, itself, using pre. - To address your question about | :

Think of it as an escape character for |. It is often needed when you nest different use cases. For example, | is used to separate inputs to templates and parser functions but it is also used in table markup. Let us say you want to have a row in the middle of a table but only if your template was not provided with a certain parameter. If you do this: You get:

However, if you do this: You get:

The specifics on when you do and don't need to use it are a bit more complicated to explain as it depends on the interpretation order of the various notations that use |. However, as demonstrated above, one such case is when you want to specify a portion of a table as input to either a template or parser function.