night parcel
Hi!
We are struggling with a problem where infoboxes inconsistently ignore whitespace in their data parameters, and I cant figure out what the cause is, attached are some examples.
In the first, the date entry displays fine but the price entry refuses to acknowledge our space inbetween 45,000 and Bux.
In the second, all of the whitespace works eccept for in secondary main(s).
Any help would be appreciated!
Links to both these infobox templates:
https://phighting.miraheze.org/wiki/Template:Skin
and https://phighting.miraheze.org/wiki/Template:UserInfo
brave stratus
Your first link leads to a non-existent page
night parcel
warped jungle
What is the link to the first image?
brave stratus
It actually doesn't seem to be inconsistent at all. It seem to do with having "raw" text, next to "non-raw" text (in most cases links, but also saw one place where the italicised text did it as well), makes it ignore the whitespace
The interesting thing is though, that if you look in the HTML via the browser inspector the whitespaces are there in the text, it is just not shown. So my guess would be something to do with margins or paddings or something like that in the CSS, though I haven't quite located where exactly it happens (and I frankly hate the CSS part of wiki'ing, so not sure how much time I am willing to spend on it personally here, but hopefully this should give you or someone else at least somewhere to start from).
brave stratus
Though one work around that may, or may not work in some of the cases, like the cost of XX Bux where you are making [[Bux]] as part of the input parameter, you could code the [[Bux]] into the template itself, using PI's <format></format> tag. Though not sure if it would affect this issue or not, I still think it would be better for consistency though at least, as the input require for the cost parameter when using the infobox would then just be the raw number
warped jungle
Or put an " " in there
warped jungle
my bad, its <https://phighting.miraheze.org/wiki/Template:Skin>
On how many ages have you added [bux]? like
30,000 Bux
And is Bux, the only currency used?
night parcel
one sec let me read
night parcel
On how many ages have you added [bux]? like
30,000 Bux
yes Bux is the only currency in the game, and it appears to be doing this for every instance of it
it might be related to links now i think about it
https://phighting.miraheze.org/wiki/Skateboard/Skins here's a live example, dont mind the broken infobox it got busted when we migrated
warped jungle
Do you have an estimate on how many pages this infobox is shown?
night parcel
it's going to be 14 pages current, 21 pages in the end
warped jungle
Ok. Not too bad
night parcel
yeah we've only got like 3 of them made right now for what its worth so fixing them shouldnt be too bad
there is only one edge case regarding the currency - during events where the skins are released, they are temporarily available for Bux and a unique event currency, but we might not put this in the infobox and just in the actual article text
once the event ends, they are given one bux price and left that way
warped jungle
Otherwise I would suggest that you do implement [Bux] in the template it self.
<data source="cost"><label>Cost</label> [[Bux]]</data>
The forces a space
And remove [Bux] from the infobox on these pages where it is used
I'm not very good in these kinds of infoboxes, as I mostly work only with Wikicode
night parcel
youre okay! thank you so much for the help, ill liase with the editor working on these pages and try it out
warped jungle
But it would be the same principle
night parcel
i do wonder why this is happening though
the only thing i can think of is.. we have flexbox applied to infobox data
it might be causing this issue
OH
YEAH THATS IT lol
its treating the normal text and link as seperate items
warped jungle
😄 There you go 🙂
night parcel
flexbox 🤦
i think i can fix this by wrapping the data in <span> ?
since that forces flex to identify it as one element
warped jungle
Yes, but I think you know better than me how to do that in html code 😉