ahmad.m.sherif wrote:

AllPages screenshot

Screenshot of Special:AllPages to show the position of 'at'

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It seems neither is a good solution, nor is changing it to 25%, because other forms will get issues. Getting rid of it altogether, as it was before r49790 is also an option[1]. According to the designer of the revised preferences, Special:Preferences may suffer, though. Which is the least of all evils, or what is a proper solution?

Adding Andrew to cc.

[1] http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/skins/common/shared.css?r1=49544&r2=49790&pathrev=51868

The columns should be the same width, and it should be reasonably narrow. It is hideous on some pages when there are multiple form tables and the columns have different widths. It is also hideous when there is a long description.

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Prefs with 20% width

Prefs with 20% width. Also uploading 30% width. Neither will win a design competition. Screenshot in Windows Xp with Firefox 3.0.11

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Prefs with 30% width

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Is there a way to change the mw-label to mw-label-preference use 20/25/30% in preferences only, and revert to the old behaviour in the rest of core (no width)? Also got a report that Special:Email is affected.

ahmad.m.sherif wrote:

proposed patch

(In reply to comment #6)

Is there a way to change the mw-label to mw-label-preference use 20/25/30% in
preferences only, and revert to the old behaviour in the rest of core (no
width)? Also got a report that Special:Email is affected.

Or something like this?

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Special:Upload screenshot

Special:Upload looks quite horrible too. It is a bad idea to apply the same spacing to a number of different interfaces.

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Assigning to Andrew. Proposed patch looks OK, doesn't it?

Patch applied with modifications in r52737.

rockmfr wrote:

Why do tables have width: 100% applied to them? This broke stuff on enwiki's prefs page (see [[en:MediaWiki:Gadgets-prefstext]]).