Template talk:Navigation with columns

Does not work in IE

The mere fact that the column style starts with "-moz" makes me wonder if this works in IE. A quick verification shows that IE6 does not supports this style. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 12:36, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

I'd hoped that "-moz-column-count:" addressed Mozilla browsers, while "column-count:" addressed IE and other browsers. If "-moz-column-count:X; column-count:X;" causes problems, I wonder why it appears in MediaWiki:Common.css...  Thanks, though, for your report. Regards, David Kernow (talk) 20:56, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

The columns also don't work in Opera 9. Below are screenshots of {{Countries and territories of East Asia}} as of the 13 February 2007 edit, when it was converted to use {{Navigation with columns}}.
Firefox 2.0:

Internet Explorer 6.0:

Opera 9.02:

It appears that the CSS3 property column-count:X; is not implemented in either of those two browsers. Since this affects at least two commonly used browsers, perhaps {{Navigation with columns}} should be redesigned before it becomes widely implemented. -- Zyxw 08:56, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree. Until the new CSS property is supported by most browsers, we either have to change this template, or not use it at all. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 11:18, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

• See thread below. David (talk) 14:37, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

List of templates using {{Navigation with columns}}

Thought it might be useful to list these here. -- Zyxw 10:00, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

1. Revised 03:34, 11 February 2007 – {{Countries and territories bordering the Mediterranean Sea}}
2. Revised 04:13, 11 February 2007 – {{East Asia Summit}}
3. Revised 09:38, 11 February 2007 – {{Countries and territories bordering the North Sea}}
4. Revised 10:15, 11 February 2007 – {{Countries and territories bordering the Norwegian-Greenland-Barents Sea}}
5. Revised 05:16, 13 February 2007 – {{Countries and territories of East Asia}}

• Thanks for the above. I'll revert/recode them soon (or find out if that's already been done!) and then remove this template.  Pity these column styles can't be used. Regards, David Kernow (talk) 14:37, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
• ...have now reverted them for the time being. Hope all okay in Opera, IE, etc, David (talk) 14:56, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Do not use template

Ok, based on the notes above, is there a way this template can be marked with a big ole "Do not use" or "not ready for prime time"? — MrDolomite • Talk 16:00, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

• Shouldn't (I hope!) now be needed, as I've recoded the template without the -moz-column-count and column-count styles. It still needs some tweaking (which I'm working on) so I haven't yet reapplied it to the templates above. Regards, David Kernow (talk) 18:11, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

below and belowstyle

How does one reduce the padding in the 'below' text? See User:Moondyne/temp. I'm trying to avoid the line break. —Moondyne 04:02, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Don't worry, I worked it out. —Moondyne 04:08, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Doesn't work

Templates which use this template now show expanded and won't collapse in Safari. It worked fine few days back. Navbox generic has space before v d e and after show/hide. looks strange and not the same as other templates.--Pethr 03:35, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

I think it must be something/s between these versions... I've just reverted the template to the April 21 version; do you see any improvement...?  Thanks for the alert, David Kernow (talk) 05:49, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Back to normal now. However, navbox generic still doesn't look good. I can post screenshot if it would be helpful. Thank you.--Pethr 16:05, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

align setting

Is there an option to change the align? If not, can someone add it, there are pages where centred colms would look and work much better than the default left. Thanks --Philip Stevens 08:25, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Bug fix

{{editprotected}}

A bug fix of mine was applied to Common.js, and it broke the expected behavior of this template.

Please replace:

div class="NavContent" style="margin:0.5em;

with:

div class="NavContent" style="display:none; margin:0.5em;

This will keep the box always closed even when there are not three or more NavFrames on a page. ←Ben^B4 11:17, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Done. Cheers. --MZMcBride 18:17, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

css fix

{{editprotected}} Please replace <table style="background:transparent; cellspacing:0; cellpadding:0; text-align:left; {{{colstyle|}}}"> by <table style="background:transparent; text-align:left; {{{colstyle|}}}" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">, cellspacing and cellpadding are attributes of the table element, not css properties. Ms2ger 19:50, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Done. Cheers. --MZMcBride 21:34, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

collapsed

Is there a way to bypass the initial collapse of this template? MDSL2005 18:34, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Use class="NavFrame collapsed", not style="display:none"

{{editprotected}} If you use style="display:none" for the NavContent divs, then users who do not have Javascript will be unable to see the content. Every instance of

<div class="NavFrame">...<div class="NavContent" style="display:none">...</div></div>

should be changed to

<div class="NavFrame collapsed">...<div class="NavContent">...</div></div>

—AlanBarrett (talk) 21:18, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Template is not protected.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 03:46, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for making the change. The template talk page had a protected notice, and I didn't check whether it was accurate. —AlanBarrett (talk) 07:34, 5 February 2009 (UTC)