Template talk:Alibend

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[edit] Images

I changed the images on the template to show a wider variety of species. Previously it had several primates (mostly of the a single species) and two domestic hoofed mammals. Currently it has one fish, one bird, one cetacean, one primate, one canid, and one large domestic hoofed mammal. More balance I'd say. VanTucky 22:54, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

For some reason the formatting of this template messes up when viewed with Internet Explorer, but is fine with Firefox. I don't know why, but there may be a formatting problem in the code. Rockpocket 23:26, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

It's retarded IE, not the temp. VanTucky 23:39, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps, but since the majority of people will read the article using IE, perhaps we should try and address it all the same? Rockpocket 23:44, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

course. I'm no good with something that technical though, so you might try the help desk. VanTucky 23:58, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

The images look good, VT, thanks. Rockpocket, what is the template doing with IE? SlimVirgin ^(talk) 00:42, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

It lines the images up in one long, horizontal line thereby squeezing the text boxes. This leads the textboxes to be really deep (vertically) to fit in all the text, and the entire template thus takes up about 2 screens. Its a real mess. I have checked it with two different version of IE on two different PCs. Rockpocket 01:28, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Hmm ... I wonder how it can be fixed. I'll ask someone who knows about these things. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 02:42, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) I was about to say the same thing - these images mess up horribly on wide monitors. If you have a large monitor, each category takes up only a single line. So the images are all bunched together. We can't have content that depends on you having a certain environment, screen layout, etc. --BigDT 01:29, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

I have a large monitor and it looks fine for me. Which browser are you using, DT? SlimVirgin ^(talk) 02:42, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

At the time, I was on Firefox with XP on a widescreen monitor ... 1600x1080 I think. Now I'm on my home laptop (1024x768) running Firefox on Vista. The version with images still doesn't look great - it shows up as two rows each with three images, all of different heights. On the widescreen monitor at the office, it was one row with 5 images and another row with one - it looked awful. --BigDT 05:22, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Images, trying again

Do the images I've added now look any better? [1] SlimVirgin ^{(talk)(contribs)} 00:40, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Syntax

I have added an optional 'state' parameter (from the parent navbar template) to determine the initial collapse state. For minimal impact, I set it to default to 'uncollapsed'. I have also added a syntax note on top of the template. Crum375 (talk) 20:35, 16 December 2007 (UTC)