Last modified: 2006-08-17 22:18:38 UTC
This code: [[Image:Sudan flag medium.png|right|100px|Soudan]] causes a big white border around the picture. When the background is not white, this can be slightly ugly. It is the case on the French Wikipédia home page where it uses a light blue paragraph background.
There are many things that have an explicit white border or background in main.css that will clash with a darker main background: table, legend, div.floatright, table.floatright, div.floatleft, table.floatleft, div.thumb, div.townBox, #pagehistory li, table.diff, td.diff-otitle, td.diff-ntitle, #preftoc li For some of these the borders could be replaced with padding/margin and the backgrounds removed, but others need it to stop the border of <h2> and <hr> from overlapping them when floating.
We implemented in MediaWiki:Monobook.css on hu: div.floatright, table.floatright { clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0 0.8em 1.4em; position: relative; border-width: 0; } div.floatleft, table.floatleft { float: left; margin: 0.3em 0.5em 0.5em 0; position: relative; border-width: 0; } What is pretty interesting that if I leave out border-width then the bug is present (probably I would find it if I would have time to browse through the whole main.css), so somewhere someone defines a white border for the floats. Anyway, white borders should be avoided, as Goplat so rightly mentioned, and replaced by margin or padding. White border makes look transparent pictures stupid on non-white backgrounds. Someone can use DIV style="background: white" if a HR needs to be surpassed...
The CSS definitions for (div|table).float(left|right) add a white border. I believe it's a workaround for some browser bug, but unfortunately I don't know which browser (possibly IE/Mac, possibly not), and it's not commented. If there's a better workaround, or if it can be enabled only for the freak browser, that would be good.
Well could anyone figure out who did that white border change in the monobook.css? Or if anyone see a border or other problem on: http://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kezd%C5%91lap (the current seal-of-alaska is a transparent png, if the page would change then create a testpage with [[Image:Alaska-state-seal.png]]...) since as I mentioned we removed the white borders (obviously, as the mentioned png would suffer severe border-illness).
Couldn't the background-color for these elements be set to "transparent"? The margins would still be there, you just wouldn't see them.
This can sorta be fixed by changing the MediaWiki's installation's [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]] to have a definition like: .thumb {border-color:whatever-your-background-color-is;} This is a problem on Meta, and I've motioned for a change... but I need a Sysop to do that.
Hallo! Is his bug fixed? The url is outdated; the page with timestamp "11 octobre 2004 à 19:41" http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Accueil&oldid=951499 includes actual versions of the used templates and an old screen shot is not available. See some (non relevant ?) tests at [[fr:Utilisateur:Gangleri/tests/bugzilla/00691]]. (In reply to comment #6) Edward please provide a new url from Meta. Thanks in advance! best reagrds reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
Fixed almost two years ago in r6095.
