Template talk:Right

Broken

@Frietjes: Today the changes made in 2015 break my talk page. The transcluded page User:Tangotango/RfA Analysis/Report is empty, which means that a stray piece of mark-up suddenly, and apparently randomly, appeared at the top of my talk page. I'm not sure if making this follow the overloaded design of {{Left}} is a good idea.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:13, 19 October 2017 (UTC).

I see no reason why {{right}} and {{left}} shouldn't function the same. the userspace page User:Tangotango/RfA Analysis/Report is a redirect to User:Cyberpower678/RfX Report. that page is empty because there are no open RFA or RFB discussions and someone blanked it. Frietjes (talk) 20:20, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

So {{Right}} looks like this

This is not good design.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:47, 3 November 2017 (UTC).

span instead of div

I have changed this template (and {{left}}) to use span tags instead of div tags in order to avoid Special:LintErrors/misc-tidy-replacement-issues, which shows up when div tags are wrapped inside of span tags. Since this template appears to apply only to in-line content, span should be appropriate. Let me know if I have broken anything. – Jonesey95 (talk) 12:17, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Jonesey95 made two edits:

• edit of 12:18, 23 August 2018 of Template:Right with edit summary fix linter errors (misc tidy formatting error, div inside of span), changing <div>...</div> to <span>...</span>
• edit of 17:43, 23 August 2018 of Template:Infobox element/element navigation/format with edit summary fix linter errors (misc tidy formatting error, div inside of span) changing ...{{right|1=...}} to ...text-align:right;"|...
  • But this template still includes <div>...</div>

And we have Template talk:Infobox element isotopes, which includes four uses like

• {{right|1={{Infobox element/element navigation|....}}}}

Which, after Jonesey95's contributions, evaluates to <span> ... <div>...</div> ... </span> ... so now what? One can easily fix Template talk:Infobox element isotopes to use other-than-span markup to replace {{right}}, but I wonder how many more of these there are, where Jonesey95's edit of {{right}} created new errors. —Anomalocaris (talk) 04:54, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

Yes. There are definitely new errors, but many fewer than before. See Template talk:Left for a similar discussion (pinging Evad37). The more I look at this template, {{left}}, and {{small}}, the more I think that these templates need a |div=yes option that deploys <div>...</div> tags instead of span tags. Or, if forking templates is your thing, a "left div", "right div", "small div" etc. templates (although, for example, {left div} would probably be better as a shortcut for to {left|div=yes} to avoid too much forking). Thoughts? – Jonesey95 (talk) 09:04, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

I wonder if its worth using Lua to inspect the passed in content, and automatically switch to a <div> instead of a <span> if the content contains a <div> or other block elements. - Evad37 [talk] 09:15, 14 September 2018 (UTC)