Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-10637-20180201175109/@comment-9605025-20180202002627

Well, not quite the same. While they are the same tag, the parsing order is different. See, when MediaWiki encounters an extension tag, it immediately passes the enclosed content to the extension for processing and then proceeds with the returned result. This means that regular markup such as parameters do not get converted. What the #tag magic word does, since it is a magic word, is allow MediaWiki to convert what will be passed as content to the tag. Let's say you want to make a template that automatically sized the video to 100x100px. The following will not work. 

However, the following will work.

- Edit:

The magic word also allows nesting of tags. Typically, MediaWiki, upon finding and opening tag, looks for the closest closing tag. Everything in between is taken as the content to be passed to the extension. This means the following will not work. However, this will.
 * -| Tab 1 = Hello
 * -| Tab 2 = There
 * -| Tab 3 = I have sub-tabs!
 * -| Tab 3-1 = Hello
 * -| Tab 3-2 = Again
 * -| Tab 1 = Hello
 * -| Tab 2 = There
 * -| Tab 3 = I have sub-tabs!
 * -| Tab 3-1 = Hello
 * -| Tab 3-2 = Again