Template talk:Usbktop

What's the justification for hard coding pixel values for width declarations in style attributes here? Among other issues this looks needlessly horrible if you're not using the whole screen for your browser. (FWIW, I got here via Category talk:Wikipedians looking for help#I created a userbox. On that page this template is the reason I have a horizontal scrollbar.) --Jeremyb (talk) 20:15, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This has to do with an issue with variable-width values on lower screen resolutions where the Transclusions link would overlap the userbox. It was extensively discussed, and this was the best solution anyone could come up with. If you can find a better way to fix it that doesn't use fixed widths, I'm all ears (although, maybe I should ask at WP:VPT or somewhere...). —Dino guy 1000 22:20, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

revisiting fixed width problem[edit]

What about this? Changing to a two-column display:

{| style="background: transparent;" ! style="text-align: left;" | Code ! Result |- |{{tl|User USA Gadsden}} ([[Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:User USA Gadsden|Transclusions]]) |{{User USA Gadsden}} |- |{{tlu|User:The Raven's Apprentice/Userboxes/User Astronomy}} ([[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:The Raven's Apprentice/Userboxes/User Astronomy|Transclusions]]) |{{User:The Raven's Apprentice/Userboxes/User Astronomy}} |}

I know I whacked some of the code out for the purpose of illustration, but I think this should certainly work. Virtually all userboxes are at least two lines, so a compact display to make use of the space makes sense. ⇔ ChristTrekker 18:29, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Table width should be set by the user, not the template. The justification in the section above is silly—if the table overlaps another element, move the table or the other element. Just change the table width to accept user input and default to nothing (i.e. collapsed to minimum width) and be done with it. — Bility (talk) 19:13, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've implemented this idea. Seems to work fine. ⇔ ChristTrekker 14:58, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]