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I'm using Firefox 5.0 and for some reason I'm not able to show/hide the stuff under the Appearances section of articles like I should be able to. I tried with IE9 and I was able to show/hide the stuff under the Appearances section of an article just fine.

Any help with this problem would be much appreciated. Mbruno 21:44, August 1, 2011 (UTC)

  • It's a problem that has (as far as I can tell) arisen from a styling change we made to the way alternate language links are displayed. I can reproduce a similar problem in non-Firefox browsers (and an identical problem in Firefox). It only affects the Wikia skin though, and we don't recommend using that anyway. See here for help on switching to Monobook; that will fix the problem for now. —NAYAYEN 22:40, August 1, 2011 (UTC)
    • Uh, I cannot locate the issue, so can someone give more details on this, like which articles, how it's broken etc. –Tm_T (Talk) 10:56, August 2, 2011 (UTC)
      • I'm on a Win7 x64 machine and I've tried it in Opera 11.50, Chrome 12, IE 9 and Firefox 5. I only get the problem in Firefox 5 when using the Wikia skin, signed in and out. What happens is that {{App}} is always expanded and the show/hide link is missing so you are unable to collapse it. I checked it on (nearly) every article on the first page of {{App}}'s WhatLinksHere and it's the same. I thought it was to do with the new interwiki links box but the issue it had with that disappeared after an hour or so (I think it was a Wikia cache thing, because it stopped around the same time in both Opera and Firefox) but Firefox 5 has been out for a while now and someone has only now reported it. At any rate, hopefully this helps... —NAYAYEN 13:06, August 2, 2011 (UTC)
        • I would blame the cache too, it has happened sometimes without any clear reason, and is not related to one or two browsers. I've been using Firefox 5 and 6 quite much and haven't noticed any issues for those specifically. –Tm_T (Talk) 16:45, August 2, 2011 (UTC)
  • As long as we're on the subject of browser irregularities, I've noticed that with Google 12, while signed-in with monobook, the little [1] boxes created by <ref> tags have a noticeable effect on the vertical spacing between individual lines of text in the article body. SinisterSamurai 16:22, August 2, 2011 (UTC)
    • Does this happen only when signed in? at any rate, it's most likely a normal line spacing issue: IIRC those refs have hard-set size when rest has related sizing, so it does lead some weird spacings occasionally. –Tm_T (Talk) 16:45, August 2, 2011 (UTC)