Translations:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions/250/en

Parser functions will mangle wikitable syntax and pipe characters ($pipe), treating all the raw pipe characters as parameter dividers. To avoid this, most wikis create the template    :! with its contents only a raw pipe character ($pipe) or use the   magic word which is available since MW 1.24. This 'hides' the pipe from the MediaWiki parser, ensuring that it is not considered until after all the templates and variables on a page have been expanded. It will then be interpreted as a table row or column separator. Alternatively, raw HTML table syntax can be used, although this is less intuitive and more error-prone.