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Whitespace problem

The box has added a lot of whitespace to Gary Valentine Lachman but not to Colin Bennett (writer) or Bob Rickard. I've had a play with other entries and it seems to only occur on entries with menus. I can't see a solution but that might help. As it stands it will be unwise to add it to the larger entries until it is fixed. (Emperor 04:23, 14 December 2006 (UTC))

I'd noticed that too, but I'm not sure why yet. I think that it might have something to do with the internal wiki syntax being used to row/columnize the infobox.
perfectblue 07:16, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Is there any way to set the width? KarlBunker 19:31, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Do you want to make it bigger or smaller, and by how much?
Right now, the The width is preset to 260px, this is based on the minimum sized left hand column needed for the text, and a slightly larger right hand column set to accommodate an average double barreled place name. I strongly suggest that nobody try to make it smaller, and that if you want to make it bigger you marginally increase the right hand column only.
Due to the nature of the table format used, adding a long caption for the picture, without adding in page breaks, will cause the entire infobox to grow beyond 260px. This is not recommended.
perfectblue 21:12, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
I was just wondering if there was a parameter to customize the size. I've only seen this template here, and thought both columns were too wide, especially the left. The overall width I'm seeing is way more than 260px, so I wonder if this is a browser issue (I'm using Safari). KarlBunker 21:47, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Could you give me an example of a page where you think that it is too wide?
perfectblue 07:26, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Philip J. Klass -- KarlBunker 12:10, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
This is a web browser issue relating to the treatment of hyper links. In my browser the hyper links are wrapped around several lines, in yours they are not. So, what you see is one long hyperlink that pushes out the sides of the column beyond what they should be, and what I see is a neat narrow infoxbox with a hyper link on three lines pushing things down, not across.
I will have a look at some alternative codings, but as things stand having a variable size parameter won't do any good because your browser will simply over ride it if a hyperlink it too long.
perfectblue 12:19, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
The latest version looks great. Nice work. KarlBunker 12:32, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
  • I added and fixed the Usage section, I noticed only a little improvement towards the whitespace problem though with my attempts (:O( -nima baghaei 18:07, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Whitespace problem Found!

  • It is the Resume Section ... just remove it and you will see the white space problem is fixed! so we gotta fix this section! -nima baghaei 18:35, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
  • This is THE part of the code that is causing the issue:
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{{#if:{{{Pjob|}}}|<tr><td>Paranormal Area:</td><td>{{{Pjob}}}</td></tr>}}
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{{#if:{{{Affiliates|}}}|<tr><td>Affiliates:</td><td>{{{Affiliates}}}</td></tr>}}

-nima baghaei 18:42, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Whitespace problem FIXED!

  • Woho! ok i fixed it! Cheers! (:O) -nima baghaei 18:46, 29 January 2007 (UTC)