The second point is perhaps the same as this? T174173: User Preference Help Message (help-message) should be lined up with the field

1. Looks slightly better, although it awkwardly puts each word on a separate line when the screen is small. Can you add a min-width: 6em; maybe? (Not sure if 6em is exactly right, but it works well on MacOS providing just enough space to fit it all on two lines.)

2. Agree that this is outside the scope of GlobalPreferences. This needs to be changed in HTMLForm.

If we can't move the text over to the left enough, can we move the checkboxes to the right a little, so that it lines up underneath?

Is this more the idea? (with the top phrases both having min-width of 7em now; 6 was still a bit narry on my system):

I do wonder if that whole top part is now a bit high though. It pushes everything else down quite a bit now it's on 4 lines.

Having the label under the checkbox looks pretty funny to me. Personally, I wouldn't add the min-width to the "select all" part.

Like this?

The "make this setting global" still wraps as "make this setting / global" sometimes... should we make the message Make this setting global?

Change 404623 had a related patch set uploaded (by Samwilson; owner: Samwilson):
[mediawiki/extensions/GlobalPreferences@master] Centre globalizing checkboxes, and prevent overwrapping of header

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/404623

The "make this setting global" still wraps as "make this setting / global" sometimes... should we make the message Make this setting global?

No that would cause problems for translators. I think it's OK how it is.

A couple outstanding issues:

• The checkboxes don't line up vertically with the regular pref checkboxes. They are off by a few pixels.
• The formatting goes all weird if you're using a really really narrow window. It turns into a weird stairstep.

Fixed the vertical align problem, and gave the global checkboxes a min-width of 2 em so they don't get squashed up to the others on very narrow screens. Seems to work in all skins I've checked.

And I can't make it do the weird stepping thing; I've seen it before though, and I know what you mean. Were you testing with the right patch? What browser? I can't see it in Chrome or FF.

Change 404623 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/GlobalPreferences@master] Centre globalizing checkboxes, and prevent overwrapping of header

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/404623