Forum:Changed infoboxes

Hi. A few months ago my infoboxes were fine. Now they are slightly different. The code hasn't changed at all.

For example, between lines 8 and 9, the line is different to the others. Previously, it has been exactly the same as the others. Also, previously the left side of the infobox (the blue column) was much skinner. Now it expands to fit in all the words, rather than putting the words on the next line.

Does anyone know what the problem is, and how to fix it. Thanks.

See an example here. 


 * I'm sorry, i didn't look at thoses links yet but since you say some months ago all was right, i think that it's because of Forum:Switching to the new parser (see also Forum:Switching to the new parser/archive).
 * Most wikis didn't have any problems with the change but when there was problems, it was often because of badly coded templates in the first place. The old version of the parser was more permissive or so.
 * I going to look at it now, but i'm now sure i'll solve anything right away. — TulipVorlax 01:17, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Code level looks good, the only hick-ups i see is that the use of Div's in the first cell is rather redundant as with  there is no discernible effect, and   can be code at the cell or even create a class for each cell cleaner code that way. The 9th row 2nd cell has its own border giving that gray border odd look. And the words for me are cut down the 30% of the table. but IE i have seen other discrepancies. but most border related --

I have gotten rid of the 9th rows border in the code, but it is still there. And I still don't know what to do to make the first column skinnier. Tardis1963 20:40, 8 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Are you using Firefox ? If so, the Firebug extension could be usefull. — TulipVorlax 22:24, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * As mention in IE it looks different =/ but what do you mean by skinner? height or width, and it can be fix but what you want to sacrifice, font size, width of the other cell to the right, size of the actual infobox. OR... you can follow the same pattern of other pages you have eg. and  where they use the wording " " and " " instead of " " and " " (notice the italic words) --

I am using Internet Explorer 8. I would like the width of the left column to be smaller, and the column on the right to be thicker in width. I would like the "Previous Companion CD" to go on two lines, because that's how it was a few months ago. I hope you can do something! Tardis1963 23:11, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

where you want to start a new line... — TulipVorlax 00:11, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Insert

What I want is for the words to automatically go over 2 lines, like they used to. Tardis1963 00:13, 9 April 2009 (UTC)


 * But isn't it what they already are ? Unless you're talking about the right column..
 * http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/4160/09042009033731.jpg
 * Left is Firefox and on right IE7. — TulipVorlax 07:39, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

This is what it looks like now. http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/tardis1963_photos/doctorwhocdpic.jpg

I want it to look like the above IE7 picture. Tardis1963 00:23, 11 April 2009 (UTC)


 * For me it is still looking like the picture i posted.
 * So, maybe it's only you...
 * Do you have access to another computer at your house, a friend house, a school, work or a library ?
 * Web sites mostly never looks exactly the same from computer to computers, for any reason (missing font, different DPI setting, different desktop size, etc.). — TulipVorlax 02:06, 11 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Looking into it some more.
 * The Width of the left colunm in your template is of 30% but you didn't specified any size for the right column. Altough logic tell us that the browser would set it to 70%, it's rarely the case unless you force it to. — TulipVorlax 02:13, 11 April 2009 (UTC)


 * And another thing; you dont have to put the "width" on each row; put this only in the first row and it's for all row of the table. — TulipVorlax 02:17, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Just checked on my laptop, and it looks like your IE7 picture (because it uses IE7). On my main computer I use IE8, so that might have something to do with it. And how do you force it to do 70% width for the right column? Tardis1963 02:39, 11 April 2009 (UTC)


 * You can't force that way the width, because you have 100% and you designate 30% for the left colum and 70% for the right, now you added some text, the text breaks like first image example as its respecting the width values, or text does not break like last image example breaking the width values maybe table gets wider (rare to happen that) or all the columns get squish in order to compensate the space thats why i told you "what are you willing to sacrifice?". Table same size but a one of the cells smaller so the other is bigger, or smaller text. Or make the table wider but you will see a lot of extra space on ones that say "Previous DVD" --