Forum:Tidy, making things untidy

We turned on "Tidy" today on all Wikia. This is designed to fix broken html and wiki markup to make it valid code. However, some of our old code will be broken with this on, until we fix it. This will mean various templates and other pages will need a bit of attention, and some wider issues may crop up. Please let us know of any you see, and we'll try and get it sorted. In the long term, this will mean that our sites are better coded and will be viewed correctly by more browsers. I don't know much about this feature at all, but do leave questions here, and I'll try and get them answered. ~Thanks -- sannse (talk) 22:03, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Issues seen so far:


 * There is extra space between some mediawiki message, most noticeably on the top of recent changes and on edit pages.
 * The tag used with   still seems to do what it did before, hmm.
 * The error with the MediaWiki: messages seems to be due to it inserting a   around some messages intermittently. So instead of:

 

 This is a minor edit  Watch this page

  

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 * we sometimes get:

 

 <label for='wpMinoredit' title='Mark this as a minor edit [alt-i]'> This is a minor edit

<input tabindex='4' type='checkbox' name='wpWatchthis' accesskey="w" id='wpWatchthis' /> <label for='wpWatchthis' title="Add this page to your watchlist [alt-w]"> Watch this page

<input id="wpSave" name="wpSave" type="submit" tabindex="5" value="Save page" accesskey="s" title="Save your changes [alt-s]" /> <input id="wpPreview" name="wpPreview" type="submit" tabindex="6" value="Show preview" accesskey="p" title="Preview your changes, please use this before saving! [alt-p]" /> <input id="wpDiff" name="wpDiff" type="submit" tabindex="7" value="Show changes" accesskey="v" title="Show which changes you made to the text. [alt-v]" />  Cancel

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 * --Splarka (talk) 22:45, 7 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I’m experiencing the same problem as above. And in w:c:dofus:dofus:Requests for Investigation some times the w:c:dofus:template:shortcut table goes and absorbs the whole page down below... After reading this and giving a little of thought I went to the template and add the missing ending tags and corrected our bug. But for what it seems the "Tidy" thing adds the tag at the end of the page messing how the format looks.


 * Not sure if this is the same as the Dofus problem above, but templates like this were severely munged, making all the text below them very small and putting their header bar at the end of the article. This seems to have been fixed in the last 12 hours though, and the "checkboxes on different lines" problem mentioned by GHe is intermittent on Doom Wiki.    Ryan W 12:20, 8 November 2006 (UTC)