Thread:Gardimuer/@comment-4018747-20120528223955/@comment-4731443-20150810053051

Using a div or a span to enclose the forum tag did not work for me as it generated a few tr and td tags to display the threads, which broke the HTML formatting since it wasn't expecting table rows. As a result the div or span were automatically closed by the browser before rendering those rows, which were then not affected by display:none.

I noticed in the source that the forum widget did not open its own table tag, so I fixed it by simply using table instead:

This way the whole block is interpreted correctly by the browser and entirely hidden. Not sure if it's a change in Wikia's layout in the years since or a byproduct of where I'm using this trick, but hopefully this will help others. Is it worth updating http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Prevent_page_caching_with_forum_tags since it comes up in several searches for cache tricks?