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Bug 18162 - "Paragraphs" in citations should not break into separate columns
"Paragraphs" in citations should not break into separate columns
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal trivial (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2009-03-25 23:16 UTC by Kevin Norris
Modified: 2009-03-27 20:50 UTC (History)
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Description Kevin Norris 2009-03-25 23:16:54 UTC
Example in the URL field.
In this case, the highlighted reference is split across two columns.  Is there some form of CSS that may be applied to citations to prevent this?  It is very confusing, especially to people unfamiliar with MediaWiki's citation system.  

To reproduce:
1) Use or copy to the test wiki [[w:Template:reflist]] (on the English Wikipedia).
2) create a large collection of citations (fill them with any form of nonsense text you please)
3) Sometimes the last citation in the first or second column will "overflow" onto the next column.

I don't think this is a problem with [[w:Template:reflist]]

What should happen:
The ends of columns of references must always coincide with the ends of references themselves.  If a ref is too long, it should be moved to the next column, without splitting.

Setting Component to "General/Unknown" since none of the components seemed to have particular relevance (I looked for a "references" or "citations" but didn't see anything)
Comment 1 Umherirrender 2009-03-27 20:50:17 UTC
"-moz-column-count" is a browser issue (mozilla) and not a MediaWiki issue

see also bug 13686, at least bug 13686, comment 1 and bug 13686, comment 4

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