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== Template rendering problem with "liberal party" ==

On the page [[New Patriotic Party]] there appears to be a strange template rendering problem.  I don't know much about templates or I'd try to fix it.  Part of the template markup is appearing in the body of the text, as shown here:
 |--- |align=center|This text is part of
 the Liberalism series (III) |-
 
 |

:Not sure why it's happening, but separating both template texts (<nowiki>{{election ghana}} and {{liberal party}}</nowiki>) putting them in different lines solves it. The problem is, then the div's will float wrong in the middle of the text, since both tables are set to be at right. Check the entry again, I "fixed" the way I could. [[User:Kieff|<nowiki></nowiki>]] &mdash; [[User:Kieff|Kieff]] | [[User talk:Kieff|Talk]] 03:17, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)

::The table syntax requires the "{|" to appear at the start of the line.  If you have two tables defined in two templates without a newline between the template references, then the "{|" of the second table will not start on a new line.  The parser used in the MediaWiki software is quite bad at recovering from syntax errors, so you often get weird stuff happening quite far away from the true location of the erroR.  &mdash;[[User:AlanBarrett|AlanBarrett]] 08:11, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

:::I see. Is there anything we can do about the two tables being at the right? It looks really ugly like that. I'd suggest if we made the template for these sort tables with variable position (we just use <nowiki>{{{1}}}</nowiki> on where there should be "right" or "left") so we define, for each article, which position is more suitable. What you think? [[User:Kieff|<nowiki></nowiki>]] &mdash; [[User:Kieff|Kieff]] | [[User talk:Kieff|Talk]] 08:40, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC)