Last modified: 2011-06-15 23:18:05 UTC
I have seen this problem on the "Absinthe" page for the section "See also", see for yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe#See_also There is an image to illustrate the section "Cultural influence". It is located on the left side of the text. But the picture's height is bigger than the text's. As a result, the next section ("See also") is right after the text of section "Cultural influence", beside the picture example. To me, it would make more sense to be below the picture, at the same level as the other sections. Right now, it looks like the section "See also" is a subsection of the section "Cultural influence". This problem occurs in all browsers. Now, I don't know if this will be considered a bug or if this is done on purpose but I submit anyway in case it's the former.
I'm going to call this not a bug, more the way html works (I suppose we could make headers clear:left, but that'd probably be undesired in many instances). Basically to work around it, add <br style="clear:left"> On the line immediately before the ==See Also== (aka at the very end of the Cultural influence section, but before See Also starts). I'm going to close this as invalid, but please feel free to re-open if you disagree.
Making bug summary more generic as to it's cause (rather than the result). <br /> should only be used if a space / line-break is desired. Otherwise use <div style="clear: left;"></div> (for picture on the right, use "clear: right" and for both "clear: both". The reason this is not going to be fixed in core is because there are many scenarios all over the place in existing wikis that expect and intend to float elements next to a heading (such as an infobox). Alternatively headings could only float the left side, but that would break layouts with a column of (floated) thumbnails on one side, and "left" is also wrong as there are Right-to-left languages to keep in mind as well. Not a bug. If you want to clear the left/right "picture space" simply add a "clear" element (many wikis have created a Template:Clear with <div style="clear: both;"></div> in it. Then add {{clear}} before a section to be safe. If your wiki does not have any floated infoboxes on the left or right side and you always want to start a new "space", you can add the following to your MediaWiki:Common.css to automatically apply {{clear}} to all sections: h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { clear: both; }
Thank you for your quick replies and your suggestions. I used {{clear}} to fix the problem. I didn't know there actually was a keyword for this purpose.
