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Can anyone tell me why the infoboxes keep condensing down to an annoying mess? This is happening often on new pages even when I'm copying the templates and pasting. Before they were nice and linear from top to bottom, now they appear as a clump that you need to read from left to right. It makes changing anything within the infobox a pain since it takes longer to find things. Thanks for any input.
I know, it's horrible to check when editing.
It hasn't happened to any new pages I've written, fortunately. I use Monobook and the plain-text editor there (still number one!), so I assume it's a problem with the Source editor, VisualEditor, and/or the rich-text editor in the Oasis/Wikia skin. I assume some new bug/feature has decided to compress templates or something. Which do you use? I know it happens to you and User:Unknown user 11.
It hasn't happened to any new pages I've written, fortunately. I use Monobook and the plain-text editor there (still number one!), so I assume it's a problem with the Source editor, VisualEditor, and/or the rich-text editor in the Oasis/Wikia skin. I assume some new bug/feature has decided to compress templates or something. Which do you use? I know it happens to you and User:Unknown user 11.
— BadCatMan (talk) 03:36, November 18, 2015 (UTC)
It never happens to me. I use Oasis, but I never use the visual editor; I always edit raw text.
Ugh, it also removes unused entries, so adding information to the infoboxes will require recreating the infobox every time.
— BadCatMan (talk) 07:31, November 18, 2015 (UTC)
I have not experienced this either. What browsers are y'all using? I'm using Firefox 41.0.2.
I usually use source editor with Chrome but just made the Abi Talid page with Firefox and it still compressed the infobox.
Good news: I created the Markos Silverhammer page the same way I always do, but did not add the info box. After saving the page, I went back in add pasted the infobox template and filled it in and saved the page again. When I did a test edit on the page the infobox remained nice and linear. Not sure why, but that works for me!