Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:05:53 UTC
I've noticed (on the English Wikipedia) that the line-spacing between the header and body in the semicolon-colon formatting syntax, i.e.: ; Bold header : Plain body ...is slightly larger than the line-spacing used for the rest of the page; also that a blank line before the syntax, e.g. this is the end of a paragraph, or bulleted list, or... ; header : body ...appears to be ignored, i.e. the above produces: this is the end of a paragraph, or bulleted list, or... [Bold header] [body] Could these two behaviors be amended please, i.e. the line-spacing made regular and the blank line observed...? If this is a browser rendering issue, I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.1 on Windows XP. Thanks, David.
This is evidently a deliberate stylistic preference by Gabriel Wicke or whoever (main.css line 161). You can change it for yourself by adding the following to [[Special:Mypage/monobook.css]], or for a wiki by adding it to [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]]: dt { margin-bottom: 0; } I'm not willing to change this globally.
(In reply to comment #1) Thanks for this information, Simetrical; I've just added it to my English Wikipedia monobook.css via the link you supplied and will look out for the difference it makes. Meanwhile, since I see the unmodified version producing non-standard spacings in English Wikipedia articles (e.g. those on countries), is there someone/somewhere that might consider a global change? Thanks, David.
Link to specific pages (using "permanent link" in the lower left) so they can be looked at.
