User talk:CJDOS

User talk page: This is a Wikipedia user talk page, not an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user to whom this page belongs may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia itself. The original talk page is located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:CJDOS.

This user has changed the username of this account. It used to be DeNoel.

Welcome to the English Wikipedia, CJDOS!
Please sign your messages using four tildes (~~~~); this will insert your username and the date.
External link: Wikimedia Commons Talk page
External link: Wikimedia Meta-Wiki Talk page

Please do not feed trolls or griefers.
Instead, deny recognition, use WP:RBI.

Tue, 14 January 2025

Current Pacific time and date
^{DST is observed (refresh)}

This user is busy in real life
and may not respond swiftly.

Archives

Index

Archive 1

Archive 2

This page has archives. Sections older than 14 days may be automatically archived by .

Setting maximum width relative to display

Timeshifter: My question doesn't feel entirely relevant to Help:Table until I know it can or cannot be done. If it can be done with a table, then I would like to recommend its inclusion. I've read in the Help page of three ways to adjust the width of a cell (and by extension, the table): pixel width (px), point width (pt), and em numbers. While I could dial this in for my display, it may behave oddly on other displays or if I change my browser's zoom factor.

How do I get a colored background to display all the way to the end of the screen without scrolling or wrapping, and automatically adjusts for display/zoom (provided that the text itself is less than the width of the screen)? Here are two examples... except the background stops just after the text:
Using a table

Some brief text

Using simple font style
Some brief text

As you see, only the box immediately surrounding the text has a LightBlue background. I would like the background to go right to the edge of the screen, always at the maximum width no matter how much I zoom in or out my display. How is that done? — CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 23:05, 21 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Update: I apologize for bothering you. I just came across the answer to my question: add display:block; to the style= parameter. Would this info be a useful inclusion to the Help:Table page? — CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 23:17, 21 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Can you give me an example? So I can look at in action with all the wikitext. --Timeshifter (talk) 01:19, 22 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Using a table

Some brief text

Using simple font style

Some brief text

— CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 01:27, 22 June 2021 (UTC) (rewrote 01:33, 22 June 2021 (UTC))[reply]

I was looking at the many display property values here:

https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/prop_style_display.asp

I am a newb concerning most of them.

Feel free to add more info to Help:Table. Add to existing sections, and/or start new ones.

--Timeshifter (talk) 18:26, 22 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Vietnam

Hello, Mikeblas. Thank you for alerting me to this revision of the Vietnam article. I cannot find the edit of which you claim that I introduced the errors (no addition/removal of {{sfn}}, nor of italic markup found). It is a very large article, and thus I haven't been back to work on it since March 2021 (edits x2). My primary focus was to reduce the article bloat by removing the extreme superfluous line-breaks and spaces. I would very much appreciate it if you can show me exactly where/when I made the errors you claimed, so that I can learn from the mistake. — CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 07:42, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there! I'm mostly referring to this edit, which introduced several Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors errors. The immediately subsequent edit introduces a few more. One example is for {{sfn|Institute of Regional Studies|2001|p=66}}. Before your edit, this footnote was referencing a {{cite book}} tag that had author = Institute of Regional Studies. In your edit, you removed the value of that parameter -- which I think is the right thing to do, since an organization shouldn't be listed as an author. But once removed, the footnote had no target anymore.

To fix these, I've used the ref= parameter with {{sfn|Institute of Regional Studies|2001}} }} (for example) in the citation to get the footnote to resolve properly.

Hope that helps! -- mikeblas (talk) 22:48, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for this information. I now see what happened to the |author= parameter: I had changed it to "Staff writer(s)". I will try to be more aware of issues like these in the future. — CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 06:11, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]