<math> tag does not render properly inside captions
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	JnpoJuwan
	Feb 13 2025, 8:50 AM

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What happens?: The <math> tag does not render properly inside thumbnail captions. They take up the entire width of the screen.

Example shown is on the page for "Exponential function" on English Wikipedia.

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.): Android Wikimedia app, 2.7.50519-r-2025-01-30

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JnpoJuwan created this task.Feb 13 2025, 8:50 AM

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I think nothing can be done from within the Math extension.

Dbrant edited projects, added Content-Transform-Team; removed Math.Feb 13 2025, 2:09 PM

Dbrant moved this task from Needs Triage to Tracking on the Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog board.

This likely has to do with our "image widening" logic, where we widen images to fill the width of the viewport, and it looks like this logic is being too eager to widen things it shouldn't.

SLopes-WMF assigned this task to Jgiannelos.Feb 27 2025, 3:19 PM

SLopes-WMF edited projects, added Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress); removed Content-Transform-Team.

MSantos added a project: Essential-Work.Mar 24 2025, 2:59 PM

Looks fixed in production.

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<math> tag does not render properly inside captions
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