Editing Project:Village pump (technical) (section)

== Odd image placement and effect on bullets ==

The article [[Danger Lights]] is about an old movie whose copyright has expired.  The wikitext starts with
  <nowiki>{{short description|1930 film}}</nowiki>
  <nowiki>{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2017}}</nowiki>
  <nowiki>{{Infobox film ... }}</nowiki>
  <nowiki>[[File:... |thumb| ...]]</nowiki>
  <nowiki>[[File:... |thumb| ...]]</nowiki>
Both of the <tt>File:</tt> links point to full versions of the movie. (Below, I will call them the "first" and "second" thumbnails.)  Next in the wikitext is the text of the lead section, then a section header for the '''Plot'''.  That's all fine.  But before the actual text of the plot there is another link,
  <nowiki>[[File:... |left|thumb| ...]]</nowiki>
which links to a screenshot of the movie's title.  And what I'm talking about here is the positioning of the "third" thumbnail, the one for that screenshot; note that this one is left-aligned.

If I view this article and vary the width of the window, I see that the infobox is always at top right, with the first two thumbnails also on the right and immediately below it.  The third thumbnail may appear at the top of the '''Plot''' section (as the wikitext suggests) if the window is so narrow that that is below the bottom of the second thumbnails.  As the window is widened, the third thumbnail always stays below the bottom of the second thumbnails (thus causing it to fall in the middle of the '''Plot''' section) until the window is widened to the point where text can reasonably go between the left- and right-aligned thumbnails.  Then the third thumbnail jumps up so that its top aligns with the bottom of the first thumbnail.

Okay, that's a little weird to watch, but I can see why it might be reasonable. Still, it seems to me that once the window is wide enough, the third thumbnail could be placed at the top left of the section as the wikitext indicates; it doesn't need to be aligned in relation to the other thumbnails.

And now, more important, look what happens if you keep widening the window so that the entire '''Plot''' section fits higher in the window than the bottom of the first thumbnail. At this point the third thumbnail finds itself down in the ''following'' section, the '''Cast'''.  Note that this section consists of a bulleted list. Well, as I see it in Firefox, whichever bullet item aligns with the top of the third thumbnail is broken: the bullet itself aligns with the bullets above the thumbnail, but the content of that bullet point aligns with the ones below.  So the list ends up formatted something like this:

     •  actor 1
     •  actor 2
     •              actor 3
                 •  actor 4
                 •  actor 5

And that's clearly a bug.

(If you want to reply, please do it here, not to the talk page for my IP address.) --[[Special:Contributions/174.95.81.219|174.95.81.219]] ([[User talk:174.95.81.219|talk]]) 02:52, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
:It's a known issue, fixed with {{tl|stack}}.[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Danger_Lights&diff=1104458683&oldid=1104447608] [[User:PrimeHunter|PrimeHunter]] ([[User talk:PrimeHunter|talk]]) 03:50, 15 August 2022 (UTC)