WdsTooltips/Usage Notes — dev

This page is a documentation on troubleshooting of issues often encountered when setting up WdsTooltips.

Toggle Creating Line Breaks

By default, MediaWiki wraps plain text blocks inside paragraphs (<p>). Since <p> is a block-level element which only allows phrasing elements inside, it gets cut off/closed as soon as meeting a <div> element, preventing the tooltip toggle from being used in-line with other text. This behaviour can be worked around by manually wrapping the containing text block with <span> or <div> (or any of the relevant HTML tags) that can avoid the auto-generation of <p> elements.

To best comply with accessibility and semantics, the format specified below is recommended.

Wikitext

<div role="paragraph">This is an {{WdsTooltips|inline-level|content}} tooltip.</div>

Output

This is an tooltip.

Using Line-break Wikitext

As whitespaces are stripped from the beginning and end of the content, starting the content with line-break wikitext markups (*, #, ;, :, {| |}) might not be straightforward. This can be worked around by inserting a whitespace character <nowiki/> at the beginning.

Wikitext

{{WdsTooltips
|A list
|<nowiki/>
# ListItem1
# ListItem2
# ListItem3
|class2 = wds-is-left-aligned
}}

Output

Passing Named Parameters

Depending on the complexity of markup, passing parameters as named (|2 = or |content =) might also be necessary for the parser to properly understand the template call.

Wikitext

{{WdsTooltips
|toggle = A table
|content = <nowiki/>
{{{!}} class="wikitable"
! Header1 !! Header2
{{!}}-
{{!}} Content1 {{!!}} Content2
{{!}}}
|class2 = wds-is-left-aligned
}}

Output

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