https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words#URL_data in the section URL_data (and other) there is a wide table and nowhere to be seen horizontal scroll (It can be seen only by scrolling the page to the end) you can move to the right/left using the keyboard arrows and the middle mouse button is it special that there is no floating scrollbar?
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Related Changes in Gerrit:
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scrollbars on wikitables and junk | mediawiki/skins/Timeless | master | +85 -2 |
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- T267161: Specific page on fr.wp shows oversized table without horizontal scroll bar in new Vector skin
T270050: Make overflowing table scrollbars sticky at bottom of screen
T173152: Timeless: Usability issues on mobile devices - Mentioned Here
- T270050: Make overflowing table scrollbars sticky at bottom of screen
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The table doesn't have a scrollbar because no other skins have a scrollbar.
However, because of the way the content column is styled, it takes the scrollbar instead of the viewport of the browser.
A couple solutions I know of: A) That should be fixed for the content column, or B) better idea is for tables at least to take an overflow: auto style. The latter is not the best accessibility for certain groups so far as I understand and is applicable to more HTML than just tables, but the former might make column unresponsive (out of knowledge zone), so that wouldn't fit with the skin.
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We need some js to make all tables pop out if they don't fit, no matter the resolution, as an up-to-full-wdith side-to-side thing with a scrollbar if needed.
How hard could it be?!
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Change 645480 had a related patch set uploaded (by Isarra; owner: Isarra):
[mediawiki/skins/Timeless@master] Scrollbars on wikitables and junk
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Change 645480 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/skins/Timeless@master] Scrollbars on wikitables and junk
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Tables like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations are no more workable on desktop as one has to go all the way to the bottom for horizontal scroll. Maybe make the table scroll with mouse?
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This was sort of the plan, but it turns out it's Hard and I don't know how. Made a task for it, though, as... really, this would be a lot better: T270050
In the meantime you can just click on the contents of the table and use the arrow keys, but that's kind of... not ideal either. >.>