Last night when an editor asked me to go through a few award templates adjusting them for various issues. One of them ( http://www.wikihow.com/Template:Dedication
) has an issue that I can’t decipher. It appears completely blank though the code is present. I checked it’s HTML but noticed no real issues in that sort of code. There is some issue with the code not showing, but I don’t know where. Can someone go through it’s code and see if they can decipher why it’s not showing, please?
@Byankno1
- The font color #FFFFFF
is white (or nearly so). I made a fix here
.
Thanks. I thought it was an easy fix, but was unsure that those f’s on font color was white.
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I noticed the white font color too, but that doesn’t really fix the problem. In the code, there is a reference to an image: [[Image:Wikihow_dedication.jpg|550px]] which does exist, and is accessible by navigating to the image URL: http://www.wikihow.com/Image:Wikihow_dedication.jpg
I’m guessing by the looks of the code, the text was supposed to be laid over the image, which was why the color was white. I’m not sure why it’s not displaying properly, but even with the text color change, the template still isn’t really “right.”
Apparently, for the text to wrap over the image, as it was designed to do, the image’s position must be set as ‘absolute’. Also, there were 0 pixels for both the width and height of the image, which therefore caused it to not display. I made that fix here
.
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Looks like you got it, @McDonalds1
. Thanks for fixing it!
I didn’t look carefully enough, so thank you for the good observations and great fix, @Isorhythmic
and @McDonalds1
!
Bumping and re-opening since Chris and I found that our fixes are causing an issue on this page: https://www.wikihow.com/wikiHow:Templates/Random-Editor-Awards
Problem with either the dedication or Kindness templates that have been used on this one user’s page which is weird to explain. After an editor sent @Hailey
the Dedication template (along with the Kindness template), it’s causing a weird error with her border that another user decided to set up just recently. After the Dedication template only link texts are showing in messages. Diff page summaries are showing fine, but the text on the Talk page is problematic, and it only happens after this template.
Plus, when this template is on the talk page, it seems that the template is being right-aligned to the edge of the message div on the wikiHow Talk page for Hailey. http://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=User_talk%3AHailey&diff=18900695&oldid=18896058
Take a look at the preview and you’ll see what I see. Right now, I’m seeing the problem on Google Chrome for my WIndows Vista computer, though I’d believe this would be happening for others on other browsers too when being used on the person’s talk page. (My version of Chrome is the updated version for Vista, just not sure of the version number.)
Using the preview function after “pulling” the Dedication template off the Talk page, shows messages displaying correctly and border set up to show the right way though I wouldn’t be so kind as to pull it completely without discussing this issue here. This template is surely problematic. Perhaps turning this template into regular text (utilizing already existent text) with a separate pic (centered on top of this text) instead of the most current version of Dedication, might help to fix these issues, though this would be a bold and daring move to make, and one I’m not set to accept.
Anna noticed the cause of the problem with the text going white after the Dedication template. Apparently, there was an extra closing tag at the end of the template. She replaced that tag with a
closing tag. I just wanted to update us some more on this project.
The issue with this page looks fixed now.
Kudos to the team effort.
