Template talk:Infobox

This diff from last year added display: table-row !important to Module:Infobox/styles.css. This caused issues with {{Infobox awards list }}, as the list of specific awards doesn't collapse; it should switch to display: none when the collapse button is toggled, but the !important property prevents this. See this discussion for more.

Can !important be safely removed from this style sheet? The diff included this file showing this page, and when I go there and edit the CSS in my browser, removing that property doesn't seem to cause issues. However, I am not nearly enough of a CSS expert to know if other issues could arise somewhere. RunningTiger123 (talk) 03:49, 8 May 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

I've removed it as it didn't look necessary to me either for the relevant skin. Izno (talk) 15:44, 8 May 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Thanks! That seems to have done the trick. RunningTiger123 (talk) 00:41, 9 May 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Per phab:T396988 I think that line 45 should end with [style], analogous to its night mode variant just above. It seems to me that this was missed in change https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Module:Infobox/styles.css&oldid=1228964747 made by User:Jdlrobson. Does anyone see a reason why that would not be the case ? —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:10, 16 June 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

There is a request at Template talk:Infobox sports season to implement explanatory notes inside the infobox, to avoid the notes getting confused with other groups of notes lower down the article. Apparently this has already been done at Template:Infobox college basketball team. I'm posting here in case anyone has an opinion about this, or whether this could more efficiently be coded at the meta module instead. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:42, 23 June 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

So just to be clear there are infoboxs out there that have the footnotes at the end of the info box making the box longer with notes that are in very small text? Why would we clutter the lead in this way? I think I have seen this before..... this is something that pop culture articles do? Moxy 🍁 22:17, 23 June 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

I have not noticed these infoboxes previously. I think small text is a bad idea because infoboxes are already at a smaller size. The proposal at Infobox sports season is a collapsed box with the notes in — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:29, 23 June 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Its odd we have groups of article's so different than others and want to hide things all the time making things unaccessible. Like Template:Toronto Raptors .... why are we hiding all the links in the header? Moxy 🍁 22:37, 23 June 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

It's against MOS:COLOUR which says Links should be clearly identifiable as links for readers. For some time now, I have been suggesting that if navboxes need colours that are not the default, the approach taken by the religious people has its merits. See for example the navboxes at Tricia Hillas. Only the topmost bar is styled, to have: background white; unlinked text black; linked text default; top and bottom borders coloured. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 08:18, 24 June 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Why are we talking about colour? It is not relevant to what is being discussed here — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:07, 24 June 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Moxy asked "why are we hiding all the links in the header?" To me they're hidden by being the same colour as the unlined text. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:15, 24 June 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

.... Perhaps I better be more clear here. Why is it that sports projects go out of their way to hide links and information in most of their templates..... for example colored links and of hiding the sources/notes in an info box. Moxy 🍁 22:04, 24 June 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

To the original question: examples please, of where these notes are present within the infobox. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 08:18, 24 June 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

There are some examples in the /testcases — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:08, 24 June 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

FWIW, I fixed the MOS:SMALLFONT accessibility problem at {{Infobox college basketball team }} that was caused by embedding a {{notelist }} inside an infobox. That sort of fix would be needed for any other infobox that included the same embedding. You can see notes in an infobox at LIU Sharks men's basketball. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:09, 26 June 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

@Jonesey95: I added your solution to the accessibility problem to Help:Footnotes#Issues. Inspired by a comment from MSGJ, I looked at several infoboxes that allow for the display of footnotes. They generally do so by creating a series of parameters, which limits the number of footnotes available (not necessarily a bad thing). I did not find any others that call {{notelist}}, which seems far more simple to me. Hopefully, if anyone else decides to implement this, they will see the note I left on the help page. I'm glad MSGJ reached out this talk page for advice. Thanks for your help. Taxman1913 (talk) 19:02, 14 July 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

These lines override some backgrounds in dark mode to #1f1f23. This is very close to the default infobox background of --background-color-interactive-subtle (#202122), but neither exactly the same nor different enough to distinguish these elements from the rest of the infobox. Is this intentional? EvenTwist41 (talk) 01:21, 17 September 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

I know if this isn't the perfect place to be discussing transclusion, but I've noticed a couple of timeline templates using the infobox template, that have the ability to collapse. Like these:

Template:Paramount Skydance evolution

Template:WildBrain evolution

I'm struggling to incorporate this on a MediaWiki wiki I'm creating. (Template:Paramount evolution - Altcyclopedia) Any idea how to do it? - BiggieSMLZ (talk) 21:30, 4 October 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

The classes in use in those templates are collapsible and its friend. These classes are aliased locally to mw-collapsible and its friend, which is the standard name. Try those names instead. Izno (talk) 04:52, 5 October 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

I inserted mw-collapsible in place of collapsed on my template ([https://altcyclopedia.miraheze.org/wiki/Template:Paramount_evolution?action=edit) , but it still had no effect. BiggieSMLZ (talk) 09:59, 5 October 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

If you change line #167 in Module:Infobox from

if rowArgs.data then

to

if rowArgs.data and (args.decat ~= 'yes') then

then |decat=yes will also prevent categorizing because of ignored data cells.

I'd also suggest changing the module to use Module:Yesno since |decat=Yes doesn't work as intended, for example, as I discovered before adding the right parameter to the first example under Template:Infobox/doc#Examples in my local copy of the doc. Tactica (talk) 19:50, 14 October 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

(This discussion started at Template talk:Infobox social media personality#Layout when a user reported an infobox with two blank rows. I'm copying over my text from there.)

The blank rows are related to embedding using |child=yes. Almost all of the testcases have a blank line or two, on both desktop and mobile, with this markup:

<tr><tdcolspan="2"class="infobox-full-data"><linkrel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style"href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1316064257"></td></tr>

One blank line is always created at the beginning of this wrapper template (in-between {{Infobox person }}'s rows and the custom rows for this infobox), and a second is created when embedding this template into another. Both are direct results of |child=yes, which creates a blank row where |title= would be listed. It simply does not suppress this row if the title is left blank. The blank row does NOT occur if you embed using |subbox=yes instead. This issue is actually already mentioned at Template:Infobox#Embedding. A workaround/solution is listed but it would have to be applied everywhere that |child=yes is used. This is something that should be fixed directly at Module:Infobox instead.

Can this possibly be fixed by someone familiar with how this module functions? I've searched through the talk page archives and it seems like this issue may have been fixed in the past. Pre fall 21:09, 15 October 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

The lack of suppression for this row is not shocking. It has to do with how infobox just magically sucks up child infoboxes into its structure. (That hack may somewhen go away, but not anytime soon.)

@Frietjes, if you're around, since you solved some of this the last go around. Izno (talk) 23:53, 16 October 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Izno, it's been sometime since I looked at this code. my guess right now is that if we change the code block starting near line 52 to move the categories and templatestyles outside of the cells and to the top of the output this could fix the problem. I will try to find some time to look at it, but I need to brush up on my string processing commands first. Frietjes (talk) 17:05, 20 October 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

@Frietjes: I know you have a ton of other things you are working on, but I just want to voice that I would love to see this fixed... It is causing an issue with basically anything that uses |module= via Module:Template wrapper. For example all the Infoboxes in Category:Templates calling Infobox sportsperson (22) or Category:Templates calling Infobox person (24) have this issue. If I can be helpful in anyway, please ping me! Zackmann (^{Talk to me} /_{What I been doing} ) 07:25, 22 October 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Zackmann08, feel free to work on it if you want. the "fixChildBoxes" function is supposed to make the output tidy by making sure the td, th, and tr tags are properly matched, but that might not be working either right now. the two ways I can see making this work are (a) have the generated empty rows styled with "display:none" or (b) detect when a child box is being passed without any content outside of the child box and insert that directly, without having it inside of a table cell. the second option seems nicer since it doesn't have extra blank rows marked as "display:none". Frietjes (talk) 17:12, 22 October 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

@Frietjes: so this may be beyond my talents, but I'll take a stab at it tonight. Zackmann (^{Talk to me} /_{What I been doing} ) 17:20, 22 October 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Tried anything yet? Cosmo Skerry (talk) 22:22, 23 October 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

I will confess I have not... I've been stuck on other projects. Zackmann (^{Talk to me} /_{What I been doing} ) 22:26, 23 October 2025 (UTC) [reply ]