Because the geography related infobox templates are "owned" by a variety of Wikiprojects their look and feel varies considerably. For example, Template:Infobox City, Template:Infobox U.S. state, and Template:Infobox Country currently have three distinctly different appearances, and a user traversing from Boston, Massachusetts to Massachusetts to United States sees each of these. Style differences between these templates include:
I propose we adopt guidelines roughly like the following:
1) These guidelines shall apply to Template:Infobox Country, all similar country-specific infoboxes, and all city and national subdivision infobox templates, collectively called geographical place infoboxes.
2) All geographical place infoboxes shall use CSS class infobox geography
, as defined in
common.css with no style overrides.
3) No geographical place infobox shall use embedded <br>
in corresponding label and value cells to define subrows. This technique makes the content difficult to understand if using a non-visual browser (such as a screen reader).
4) Row labels shall use the HTML TH
tag (or wikitable equivalent, i.e. !).
4) Collections of related rows shall use no CSS styles to create or inhibit borders other than the mergedtoprow
, mergedrow
, and mergedbottomrow
styles definied in
common.css.
Note that the styles that are referred to are not (all) defined yet. As a starting point for discussion, I suggest we first agree on the general principles (as above) and then work out what the styles should be.
-- Rick Block ( talk) 17:32, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm aware of Wikipedia:Infobox standardisation, which is a similar idea but applied to all infoboxes. The key difference is that this proposal is domain specific, applying to only a set of infoboxes I'd think most readers would expect to have a consistent look. -- Rick Block ( talk) 17:44, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Of all those three templates above, I *strongly* prefer the country infobox one, so I suggest we take that as the basis for our standard... — Nightst a llion (?) 05:40, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
I don't like the current infobox country. I've noticed the images stick out for many of the country articles such as India, China, Bhutan etc. Images should be resolved. =Nichalp «Talk»= 05:49, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
Per Rick's suggestion, please also see here. Thanks, David Kernow ( talk) 16:15, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
Because the geography related infobox templates are "owned" by a variety of Wikiprojects their look and feel varies considerably. For example, Template:Infobox City, Template:Infobox U.S. state, and Template:Infobox Country currently have three distinctly different appearances, and a user traversing from Boston, Massachusetts to Massachusetts to United States sees each of these. Style differences between these templates include:
I propose we adopt guidelines roughly like the following:
1) These guidelines shall apply to Template:Infobox Country, all similar country-specific infoboxes, and all city and national subdivision infobox templates, collectively called geographical place infoboxes.
2) All geographical place infoboxes shall use CSS class infobox geography
, as defined in
common.css with no style overrides.
3) No geographical place infobox shall use embedded <br>
in corresponding label and value cells to define subrows. This technique makes the content difficult to understand if using a non-visual browser (such as a screen reader).
4) Row labels shall use the HTML TH
tag (or wikitable equivalent, i.e. !).
4) Collections of related rows shall use no CSS styles to create or inhibit borders other than the mergedtoprow
, mergedrow
, and mergedbottomrow
styles definied in
common.css.
Note that the styles that are referred to are not (all) defined yet. As a starting point for discussion, I suggest we first agree on the general principles (as above) and then work out what the styles should be.
-- Rick Block ( talk) 17:32, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm aware of Wikipedia:Infobox standardisation, which is a similar idea but applied to all infoboxes. The key difference is that this proposal is domain specific, applying to only a set of infoboxes I'd think most readers would expect to have a consistent look. -- Rick Block ( talk) 17:44, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Of all those three templates above, I *strongly* prefer the country infobox one, so I suggest we take that as the basis for our standard... — Nightst a llion (?) 05:40, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
I don't like the current infobox country. I've noticed the images stick out for many of the country articles such as India, China, Bhutan etc. Images should be resolved. =Nichalp «Talk»= 05:49, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
Per Rick's suggestion, please also see here. Thanks, David Kernow ( talk) 16:15, 30 September 2006 (UTC)