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Templates, not tables

Actually, I think the problem you were having was not with tables, but with templates after all.

I could still use more specific information about what the problem is. Maybe you could make two versions of the page, with just one pipe being added or removed between the two versions, and describe to me what you see as being "incorrect" (e.g. a certain word moves too far to the right, etc.)

OK, I think the pipes you were adding and removing had nothing to do with tables. They were pipes separating template arguments, and in that case they act as single pipes, not pairs of pipes.

The template is Template:BS3, and if you look on that page it explains what the arguments are. The template is called like this: {{BS3|arg1|arg2|arg3|arg4|arg5|arg6|arg7|PX=argPX}} for example, with 7 arguments that go in order plus an optional argument marked with "PX=" for the PX optional argument; it has two other optional arguments you can also use. The way you're calling the template, many of the ordered arguments are blank. If you add or remove a pipe, then material gets reassigned for example from being argument 3 (which for this template, according to its documentation, is image 3) to being perhaps argument 4 (which is something else).

I hope that helps. (Previous unsigned comment by Coppertwig)

Ah, that's exactly what is showing now on the Test Page. :-) Each dropped or added pipe actually moves the whole link to another argument. Turning the border on shows that much more clearly and allows me to visually see which links are in the wrong column. I don't mind at all that you edited my User Page. That's what it's there for! :-) I think we have resolved this issue satisfactorily, but I still may ask you for more assistance. Thanks again. Acps110 (talk) 18:24, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi, how's it going? --Coppertwig (talk) 20:46, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

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