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Template-protected edit request on 26 September 2020
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Reason, the example of this in the documentation should show as in an article?
Plus I have display problem requires a leading <b r />line-break.
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I will be importing some items from my own talk page to illustrate the problem shortly, but the short of it is that if content is not wrappable (or is an image, say) then if the screen is narrow enough (like a phone) then any textual or image data is lost to the beyond (the edges of the screen) without any scrolling capabilities. :- indentation with <math> as is often paired allows sideways scrolling of the image. So does the display="block" attribute in the math tag. But say for {{math}} or some other situation where indent is required and :-indentation is discouraged, this template is the ideal candidate. Except when the content is too wide. Hellacioussatyr (talk) 16:56, 30 April 2021 (UTC)Reply
As stated in my talk page, the formula on Duality (mathematics) is only partially viewable. The workaround here was to use the display="block" attribute, but <math> isn't the only form of math formatting in use. (The CSS class rules for .block-indent has a rule overflow: hidden. May that have anything to do with this issue?) Hellacioussatyr (talk) 10:51, 1 May 2021 (UTC)Reply
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Why the default indent is chosen so? It is incompatible with the current practice of using : – "most editors have used it almost everywhere for indenting" – which is condemned but very widely used (including WP:MOS itself).
And, by the way, with the recent Wikimedia style for paragraphs that made the bottom margin for <p> larger than the top margin, the <div> created by this template is visually attached to the following paragraph rather that the preceding one or being equally separated from both. I think, in most cases this is not the intended behavior. Perhaps this can be corrected by changing <div> to <span style="display:block">, as it has been done for <math display="block">. Or to <p> with an appropriate indent, if it is semantically supposed to be a separate paragraph instead of a visually distinct part of the surrounding paragraph. — Mikhail Ryazanov (talk) 08:03, 19 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Oops, if this template should support multiple paragraphs inside, then replacing <div> by <span> or <p> will not work. So:
The problem with the top/bottom margins needs to be solved explicitly.
It there an alternative template that works like <span style="display:block"> but for wikitext instead of LaTex?
@Jonesey95: "Reliable source" for what? The linked WP:RS is about articles content and has nothing to do with representation or technical implementation details.
Remove the extra top margin (to be consistent with the documentation: "does not: ... introduce whitespace margins above or below the indented material").
It's boilerplate text that makes it easy to respond to incomplete edit requests, hence "if appropriate" at the end. I do not see any implementable code change above, just questions and suggestions. I should probably have chosen the response that asks you to edit {{Block indent/sandbox}} with your proposed changes, and then make sure it works at {{Block_indent/testcases}}. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:55, 20 February 2025 (UTC)Reply
Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. * Pppery * it has begun... 01:43, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
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