Forum:Fontcolor flaky

the following code produces output that looks like: the source code looks like: text text I dont understand why both lines arent colored yellow. This only seems to happen in a table. I tried it at wikipedia and it worked fine Granpa 19:31, August 15, 2011 (UTC)


 * Here is the link to the fontcolor template
 * http://religion.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Fontcolor
 * Its exactly the same as the one at wikipedia
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Fontcolor
 * The source code looks like:
 * Granpa 19:57, August 15, 2011 (UTC)
 * Granpa 19:57, August 15, 2011 (UTC)


 * According to W3Schools.com: "The  tag is used to group inline-elements."   is not an inline element, so a span tag can not affect it. Whether or not it is in a table doesn't make a difference; this is how just HTML works. --Gardimuer { ʈalk } 20:22, August 15, 2011 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia doesnt add the  but our wiki does.
 * I dont know why
 * I tried


 * {|border=1 cellspacing=1
 * }
 * }
 * and the result was:
 * and the result was:

text
 * text
 * }
 * which works fine.
 * Granpa 21:32, August 15, 2011 (UTC)


 * You are right. The MediaWiki syntax is adding  tags in an inconsistent way inside of tables. If I had to guess, I'd say the difference is caused by the fact that Wikia is using version  of the MediaWiki software, whereas Wikipedia is using version 1.17wmf1. But I may be wrong. --Gardimuer { ʈalk } 22:02, August 15, 2011 (UTC)


 * Although you are right about the span+p and html, I think the problem here is just too may things wrong with that template.
 * the documentation doesn't say anything about where/when it can/should be used
 * the template uses "style"
 * I can't even tell where those extra p and /p are coming from!
 * As a rule, any template that has "style=" is just wrong and should be avoided.
 * On another note, did you enable that new crappy editor? I won't be able to help you further while that is enabled.
 * On another note, did you enable that new crappy editor? I won't be able to help you further while that is enabled.


 * is not wrong. The only other way to apply styles is via MediaWiki pages, which most users don't have access to.


 * I turned the editor off.
 * Granpa 21:28, August 15, 2011 (UTC)