User blog comment:Kirkburn/Syntax highlighting - helping you read and write code/@comment-1038387-20150326195108/@comment-4902411-20150327203031

On a similar note, this does not happen when a table begins ({|), until any another highlight is done inside it. For instance, in {|class="wikitable" only  gets highlighted, while in {|class="wikitable" the whole block is highlighted. This also happens for nested tables.
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