Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-26468976-20160611204348/@comment-9605025-20160614030212

To reinforce what others have already said in this thread, portable infoboxes, with only a few exceptions, can contain anything a regular template can. The only difference is the markup and the fact that portable infoboxes are automatically rendered to best serve the readers viewing situation.

That being said, a template can be organized without using the portable infobox markup. Most of the MediaWiki markup language is white-space insensitive. This means that, for example, the following are interpreted to be the same.

That being the case, templates with a lot of content/parser functions will still be confusing. However, you can make them easier to read by formatting the markup in a consistent and/or relevant manner. For example,

In the above example, it is easier to read because nested content can be distinguished by indentation level. Again, this is just an example.