Last modified: 2010-11-05 15:51:35 UTC
Hi! I have seen a great discrepancy between the Monobook and calsic Skins. At http://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Yi_wikipedia_-_ltr_-_monobook_-_clasic.jpg you can see that identations using #foo (new line) ##bar FAIL at yi.wp (rtl wiki) in the Monobook skin The corrsponding URL is http://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Danny/todos#problems_to_be_fixed_by_developers . Regards Reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
Changed summary to describe the problem.
changed severity to major as using LTR blocks on RTL wikis a lot
The problem occurs in any list with a RTL box on a LTR wiki, as well as a LTR box on a RTL wiki. It occurs whether the direction-marking occurs on the list-item, the list, or a div around the list. REL1_4 and HEAD both have the problem. The CSS1 and CSS2.1 specifications place list-item markers outside the list-item "box", for the default list-style-position. Both the Gecko and IE layout engines can place these markers outside the parent boxes completely. The Monobook main.css sets lists to have no padding, no right-hand margin and a left margin of 3.2em. rtl.css reverses the horizontal margins for lists, although with a smaller margin for ordered lists. TOC styles overide the horizontal margins separately. One simple fix is to change main.css to make the left margin the same size as the right margin. This removes the need to override the horizontal margins in rtl.css. This could be applied to the MediaWiki releases, or just done as a customisation per site or per user. The down-side of this fix is that the extra margin wastes horizontal space, which may be an issue inside table columns. It can be overridden using tags instead of wikisyntax. I'll attach sample XHTML, and the patches for this fix. (Although the default padding for Firefox 1.04 and IE6-SP1 is already 0, I've left it in the CSS in case someone put it there for other browsers that may have different defaults.) The sample uses colored borders to show how CSS works for this problem. A.1 shows the current behaviour, and A.2 shows the effect of the patch. B & C show the effect of changing the list padding.
Created attachment 618 [details] Sample XHTML page
Created attachment 619 [details] REL1_4 patch for Monobook main.css, rtl.css
Created attachment 620 [details] HEAD patch for Monobook main.css, rtl.css
see also bug 3929: make ٭ equivalent to *
*update* see [[he:Gangleri/tests/bugzilla/02020]] and [[wiktionary:project:bugzilla/02020]] http://he.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=user:Gangleri/tests/bugzilla/02020&oldid=791357 http://yi.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=project:bugzilla/02020&oldid=6016
Please take a look at bug 4521 comment 6 Bug 4521: Definition list abused for indentation purposes
*** Bug 6221 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Just tested this against the sample text and got the expected indentation on both monobook, classic and vector.
