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Talk:White Space
It's not only fanzines. White space is a pet peeve of mine around this place! So many doohickeys simply do not WRAP; and, when people put them, in you get great swatches of white space. In some instances, so much that a casual reader could easily think there's nothing on the page but an infobox, or the page has ended in a graphic.
{{Stub}}, for example, needs to go at the very top of the page, above the infobox. Otherwise, you get white all the way down the infobox.
Similarly, if you put in a graphic and use float & clear in the instructions, then all the text will be shoved down the page, leaving a huge white gap by the graphic. "Clear" will clear the page.
(So, okay, I'm a bit nuts on layout.) :) --Greer Watson 16:54, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
- I absolutely hate how stub looks when coded at the top of the page! You get all that white space to the right, and it means I have to scroll down to even read all of the infobox. I find it much less dominating and distracting if it's coded below the infobox. I actually think the template needs a lot less white space buffer below it though. (So, you can't ever get people to agree about things like this.) --facetofcathy 17:14, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
- Similarly, if you put in a graphic and use float & clear in the instructions, then all the text will be shoved down the page, leaving a huge white gap by the graphic. Um, no it doesn't. The text wraps neatly around it. I tried it on three diferent computers with three different browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari) and it looks fine. Same with your description of what you see on the {{Stub}} pages. What browser do you use? --Doro 17:34, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
- I'm using Internet Explorer 7 (having upgraded from IE6 last summer in order to get AO3). --Greer Watson 22:20, 29 April 2011 (UTC)