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Doesn't properly handle linebreaks at the start of a sublist

{{navbox
|group1=Foo
|list1=
* Lots of items...
* Numbers
** 1
** 2
}}

has (at least) 5 possible places to create a linebreak:

• Between
  Lots of items...
  and
  • Numbers (1 • 2)
  Y
• Between
  Lots of items... •
  and
  Numbers (1 • 2)
  Y
• Between
  Lots of items... • Numbers (1
  and
  • 2)
  Y
• Between
  Lots of items... • Numbers (1 •
  and
  2)
  Y
• Between
  Lots of items... • Numbers
  and
  (1 • 2)
  N

The last version is bad, because the context for the sublist is lost by the time the reader drags their eyes over to it. Nevertheless, navbox lines can (and do) break there.

{{hlist}} may suffer from the same problem (or even originate it). I think some clever CSS hackery can prevent a linebreak before the sublist, but I know neither how to do it, nor how to read/write Lua.

Thanks, Bernanke's Crossbow (talk) 15:22, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

Can you give an example of #5? -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 04:30, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

@Michael Bednarek: Groupings "Phosphorus" and "halo" in {{Functional groups}} (default skin, Firefox 117.0.1/Windows 11 build 22621.2283 on a 1920x1080 screen at 125% scale). Bernanke's Crossbow (talk) 03:08, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

That happens at any screen resolution and is how hlists are intended to work. I suspect the reason is to avoid unsolvable problems if the sublist itself is wider than the display window, which can easily happen in your example for Haloalkalenes. If you want to force, say, Phosphine and Phosphonium to stay together, you could avoid that behaviour of hlist and bind those two with *[[Organophosphine|Phosphine]] ([[Phosphonium]]). Other editors of that template might later be puzzled by that construct and restore standard syntax. Good luck. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 04:59, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

#invoke:Navbox

The two navboxes at Family tree of Japanese monarchs are not displaying correctly, and are just showing up as anchor links to #invoke:Navbox --Yodin^T 13:32, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

That is because of WP:PEIS. Note that Category:Pages where post-expand include size is exceeded appears in the category list. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:32, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks 👍 --Yodin^T 18:47, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Can you patch line 452? gfind is obseleted in Lua 5.1

Would it be possible to request an edit to line 452, to change local gfind = string.gfind to local gfind = string.gmatch?

It seems that string.gfind is obsoleted in Lua 5.1 (though obviously still available functioning 5.1.5 that the wiki farm is running) and has been renamed to string.gmatch.

While the code works under Lua 5.1.5, it fails under luajit (which a number of large MW installations use), which is (I believe) 100% compatible with Lua 5.1, though I guess the "obsoleted" features aren't considered in that context? Mahmoud (talk) 20:43, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

@Mqudsi: Line 452 where? This template doesn't have that many lines - it has just three. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 09:50, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

I suppose the poster meant Module:Navbox#L-452. (No opinion here on the merit.) -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 09:59, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Yes, I did. I don’t know how I ended up making the comment on the Template page instead! Mahmoud (talk) 20:00, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Oh, if you go to the talk page on the module you get redirected to the talk page for the template. Mahmoud (talk) 20:01, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

WCAG Compliance - Contrast

Hello, It would be Good if the Colors used in the Navboxes are following Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Compliance. J.Stalin S ^Talk 04:21, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

I might be mistaken, but I do not think that is anything that the navbox itself can handle - problematic navboxes are (as far as I am aware) dealt with on a case-by-case basis. Primefac (talk) 07:23, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Multiple languages of parameters

Helloo! I want to ask one question about parameters which appear in Navbox and written in Module:Navbox/configuration. I wanted to localise it to KazWiki, and I did it, it's work with kazakh parameters, but i want to add English parameters too, because we have templates which use english parameters also. I tried do, but it's not work, you can watch it here. --Amangeldi Mukhamejan (talk) 09:52, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

@Amangeldi Mukhamejan: What I did on norwegian wikipedia was to just use the module directly in no:Template:Navbox, but create a new translated template no:Template:Navboks where I used both english and norwegian parameters. This way you can use no:Template:Navboks with both norwegian and english parameters, and it will also be very easy when you need to update the module. If you do the same with kk:Template:Шолғы you can use english and kazakh parameters. Tholme (talk) 17:51, 5 December 2023 (UTC)