Forum:Ahnentafel-compact templates from Wikipedia


 * See here. I want this template to work at the Genealogy Wikia here, but it's not working. I would also like to know how to make one up to 10 generations. Thanks for any help. - AMK152 (Talk • Contributions 23:05, 11 September 2007 (UTC)


 * This uses html tables in parser functions, which requires htmlTidy to be installed (which Wikia cannot do at this time, even though I have begged and demanded that we do). You can hypothetically try to convert it to using wikitables, but that is a painful process, for a template this complex. Basically, you replace (not magically, but manually)  with   and  with   (needs Template:!). Pain in the ascii. --Splarka (talk) &lt;Staff&gt; 09:54, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Ouch. Well, I used a HTML to wiki markup converter, and it converted it, but when i go to actually use the template, I can only use the first field:

This doesn't work:

The borders don't appear around the boxes either. Did the converter do something wrong here? . - AMK152 (Talk • Contributions 20:07, 12 September 2007 (UTC)