Forum:Offspring box width


 * First conversation copied from Talk:Catherine Stuart (Abt 1851-?).

As mentioned on the Yewenyi upgrade forum a week ago, the infobox and offspring box overlap. Who can fix? — Robin Patterson (Talk) 03:52, 6 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Not on my screen, the offspring box is nicely below the info box. It must depend on which browser you are using, what your screen resolution is, and perhaps whether there is an "r" in the month. Thurstan 04:05, 6 July 2009 (UTC)


 * The above was written on my XP notebook using IE (version 8). I fired up a Linux box, and with Firefox (version 2.0.0.6) the boxes overlap if the window is too narrow. My standard is to code Clear before the offsping box (which is actually to stop that box being stupidly narrow when the general infobox is too wide). Thurstan 04:58, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

We are discussing Template:Showinfo children and/or its eventual replacement  Template:Showfacts children. Appearance seems to depend on browser, with IE8 OK and Firefox 2 (which I always use at present) not OK. See above. I use the custom skin for Familypedia. Offspring boxes seem unnecessarily wide in several cases; Catherine Stuart's has less space available in its header row than in the lower rows but has a space amounting to about 12% of the page width before the word "Offspring" (and presumably the same at the end), giving the impression that it may be trying to occupy the full page width, while the infobox is a modest 36% of the page width. The right-hand end of the offspring box is invisible, though some of its contents are mixed up in the infobox.

I've seen it elsewhere recently, e.g. on an otherwise exemplary page Henry I, King of England (1068-1135). His offspring boxes overlap in the same way, extending uniformly to about 78% of the page/pane width, so that the overlap is about 16%.

Thurstan's solution of inserting clr overcomes the problem but leaves an awful lot of white space in the text area if the person (e.g. Henry I) has a long list of spouses and not much biography on the page.

Please can we restrict it to, say 60%? (As I did not design the offspring boxes, I'm not qualified to "be bold" and fiddle with their size myself.) There seems to be no restriction at present. There may be value in also putting a restriction on the infobox, to, say, the 36% that seems to fit nicely and cater for nearly everything it could want.

— Robin Patterson (Talk) 15:07, 24 July 2009 (UTC)