Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:06:27 UTC
The 'toccolours' CSS class, as it stands, doesn't fully format the table it's a part of. This requires markup in the tables, which is suboptimal. I propose the addition of the following to skins/common/common.css: .toccolours th { background-color:#ccccff; text-align:center; font-size:normal; } This is in concurrence with the standard Wikipedia style for navboxes. (See [[en:Template:OSIModel]], [[en:Template:Gastroenterology]] and so forth.) This will allow navboxes to be custom-styled along with the rest of the site, as well as making it considerably easier to write a properly-styled navbox.
It's tempting to add .toccolours td { font-size:small; } but the merits are debatable. On the one hand, the vast majority of navboxes shrink their contents so that they can fit more in. But on the other hand, double-smalling the contents would make them illegibly tiny until someone went through and fixed them all. On the other hand, doing a .toccolours { ... font-size:small; } .toccolours th { ... font-size:normal; } would allow the user to easily override the table style in instances where small contents are not in order ({| class="toccolours" style="font-size:normal"). The small-text problem from above remains, but this would make the shrunken text inside at least be the default. If there were a way to prevent double-shrinking, that would be ideal.
Created attachment 371 [details] Diff to implement the conservative set of features in common.css. This is a patch to be applied to common.css to implement the first, more conservative version of this change.
After discussion on [[WP:VP]] (proposals), I've decided to change the request to ask for a new class entirely, instead of overloading the .toccolours class to do things it was not originally intended for. I would like the addition of a .navbox CSS class. In addition to being named for what it would be used for, the automatic use of small fonts for the inside of the navbox could be implemented, since the new class would only be used as the navbox templates were rewritten. A new diff is being attached.
Created attachment 383 [details] Diff to create new .navbox CSS class.
Has this been superseded by the changes to the 1.5 navigation lists?
(In reply to comment #5) > Has this been superseded by the changes to the 1.5 navigation lists? In answer to myself: No. Navboxes are not navigation lists.
Shouldn't this be in the local site css in the wiki?
Agreed; this can be changed depending upon the needs of the wiki itself, via [[MediaWiki:monobook.css]], [[MediaWiki:classic.css]] et al. Marking WONTFIX.
