Editing Help:Section (section)

=== Sections within parser functions ===
{{Update|the following section about conditional transclusion}}

When conditionally (using a [[Help:Magic words|parser function]]) transcluding a template with sections, the "edit" links of this and subsequent sections will edit the wrong section or give the error message that the section does not exist (although the page (including TOC) is correctly displayed and the TOC links correctly). This is because for the targets of the "edit" links the content of conditionally included templates is considered part of the page itself, and the sections are counted after expansion.

Thus, the "edit" links of the sections of the included template link to the page itself instead of the template, and the "edit" links after the included template link to the correct page but the wrong section number.

More generally, conditional sections give such a complication.

The problem does not occur when transcluding a template with a conditional name (which has more advantages). Use {{tim|void}} for the template to transclude to produce nothing.

{{Help:Editing sections of included templates}}