Why does a wiki table with class "wikitable" not display properly? [closed]

Question

I am not new to wikis or to HTML/CSS, however, I'm a bit confused as to why the standard "wikitable" CSS class does not disply as it should within WikiTree.

Example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Table/Manual_tables

If you take the base example on the page for a basic table using the "wikitable" class, it displays with a border and light grey background for the header row. Now copy and paste this into any profile and the table displays without the border and header row background color.

I've checked out:

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Editing_Tips#Tables

The example there uses this CSS class, however, it displays incorrectly there as well and looking at the source, the border attribute has been added, otherwise, it wouldn't have a border.

Is WikiTree overridding this class?

Comments

What exactly is the example doing that the wikicode is not doing?

Answer 1

Anything you find in Wikipedia or MediaWiki help files may or may not work on Wikitree which was forked from an older version of Mediawiki - there are lots of things that are not the same and do not or cannot work the same. Many mediawiki extensions do not work here, or use older versions.

Moreover CSS classes are defined by the website and since this is not Wikipedia I would not expect the css classes to be identical.

Comments

This doesn't answer my question since the examples on WikiTree are using the "wikitable" CSS class.

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It might use the same class name but that does not mean the class is defined the same way. Similarly the ref tag is also used in Wikitree but is currently based on an older version and does not have all the functions that the exact same tag does on Wikipedia. Or how the link parameter for images is not enabled here. Different website, different settings.

Answer 2

See Chris Whitten's answer here: http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/125610/where-do-you-go-to-find-coding-instructions

Comments

This doesn't answer my question since the examples on WikiTree are using the "wikitable" CSS class.

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Allison,

My experience has been that the help files, and especially the ones relating to styles and code that can be used, have a convoluted labyrinth of internconnections that make navigation more like a scavenger hunt, and also have many instances of conflicting information on different pages in the set, which is not necessarily accurate for what is and is not supported here.

It is my guess that you have just documented another one in the long list of such differences between information on help pages and reality.