Last modified: 2012-04-19 21:22:18 UTC
As reported at <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)&oldid=454640449#Categories_are_surrounded_by_much_more_space.2C_and_they_don.27t_wrap_from_line_to_line>, the category links now look bad. There's extra (excessive) spacing and the separator is always at the start of the next line, both of which are awkward and goofy. This can be resolved on a per-site basis, but the default should be saner.
Any reason (besides IE7-8 supporting first-child but not last-child) not to use a border-right instead of border-left?
(In reply to comment #1) > Any reason (besides IE7-8 supporting first-child but not last-child) not to use > a border-right instead of border-left? It'd be better to have MediaWiki simply wrap the first category in a distinct class or ID. That shouldn't be very difficult to implement at all and would remove the need for a pseudo-class altogether.
*** Bug 31551 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
To repeat from other duped bug - for reference: Bug 12261 / r92054 was originally where new categorylinks were introduced.
Working on a patch...
I haven't looked at this too closely, but I think there are two separate issues: * changing the HTML output to be a bit easier to work with * adjusting the CSS to be a bit more sane If I were implementing this, I think it makes more sense to do a border-right on each <li> within catlinks. That keeps the separator on the same line as (at least) the word that precedes it, which is standard. This: Foo | Bar | Baz | Bing | Bam Rather than: Foo | Bar | Baz | Bing | Bam The latter is awkward and strange to me. Then, rather than adding a class to the first category link, you'd output a special class on the last category link and then set its border-right to none. A little display:inline; magic and some other tweaks can fix the word-wrapping and/or spacing issues.
What do you mean with "disply:inline"-magic? Afaik inline-block is needed for paddings and borders. My arguments for less spacing (per http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fragen_zur_Wikipedia#MW118:_Kategorienanzeige): Before the change there was one blank between the vertical line and the cateory link, and one blank in front of the list. A blank usually has a width of 1/4 quad (em), but since the change the spaces now have 0.7em, the one in front of the list is 0.4em additional to the blank. This may look OK in Vector, but for the older skins (expecially monobook) it looks horrible. Please revert it to .catlinks li { padding: 0 .3em; /* or even .25 */ border-left: 1px solid /*black*/; /* just current-color as before */ margin: 0; /* instead of 0.1em ore more */ } .catlinks li:first-child { padding-left: 0; /* there's already a blank left to it */ } in shared.css, of course you may set specific, bigger spaces or the grey line color in vector/main.css. I'm not sure when this was introduced (r92054?), there are so many different revisions (r92245,...). E.g. r96775 was quite OK, I don't know what happened since then.
tagging bugs for Marcus to look at
Created attachment 9240 [details] Patch to reduce catlinks spacing Patch to reduce catlinks spacing. This patch only changes existing properties without introducing new ones, minimizing the change of any CSS conflicts. This code is currently live on en.wiki's common.css.
r100869
The patch creates a problem in IE's compatibility view due to the line-height of 1em. I have adapted the patch.
Created attachment 9349 [details] Patch to reduce catlinks spacing New patch which is live in enwiki's common.css.
Your new patch doesn't apply cleanly against the shared.css in SVN. Could you update it so I can apply it?
Created attachment 9369 [details] Updated patch for catlinks spacing New patch created against current revision.
r102298
