Help:Lint errors/multiple-unclosed-formatting-tags
Problem
[edit]There are two unrelated instances where this category is emitted.
Scenario 1: Accumulated effect of small and big tags
[edit]When more than one <small> or <big> tag is left unclosed on a page, the effects of those small and big tags accumulate on a page.
See this revision on Italian Wikipedia for an example of a particularly bad case with 13 unclosed small tags.
Scenario 2: Incorrect use of <tag> instead of </tag>
[edit]Sometimes, editors accidentally use an opening tag instead of a closing tag. For example (<code>foo<code> instead of <code>foo</code>) (Ex: this revision on itwiki)
Solution
[edit]In both the scenarios, close the corresponding unclosed tag.
Affected tags
[edit]Note that these scenarios only affect formatting tags:
a, b, big, code, em, font, i, nobr, s, small, strike, strong, tt, u
Caveats
[edit]- This error is expected to not be very common.
- There can be false positives if the unclosed
<small>/<big>tags are in different cells of a table.