🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Oct 8, 2017 02:21 PM UTC:
I noticed that in some of my articles where text used to wrap around a diagram, this suddenly doesn't happen anymore.
I noticed this happening on your Interactive Diagrams page, but I assumed it was your doing, since I had just previously fixed the problem with this page.
Some investigation revealed that this is due to the "float:left" style of the image being rendered ineffective by wrapping all of the article text in <SECTION> tags, which have a defined style "clear: both", forbidding invasion by floating elements. Before, only the section headers were wrapped in <SECTION> tags (so that new sections would not start beside a floating element), but the text itself could accept floating images.
Wrapping each section in its own <SECTION> tag should have nothing to do with it, and this has been what it does since at least last year. The only change I made recently was to change the lower sections after the first two to display as blocks. This would not affect anything in the first two sections, one of which will usually be where your diagram is found. It will also not affect the ability of elements within the section to wrap around each other. The CSS code you're referring to looks like this:
This is for a section that follows after another section that is an immediate child of an article that is an immediate child of main. So, it would have no effect on the first section, which is where your diagram is on this page. Besides that, the "display: block;" section is overridden by the "display: inline;" that appears in the HTML for the first two sections. If "clear: both;" had had the intended effect, I would not have needed to change the other sections to display as blocks, which I recently did to stop the text of the Pieces section from wrapping around stuff from earlier sections. Anyway, this code appears to be useless, and deleting it has had no effect. So, it is not the cause of text not wrapping around your diagrams.
I have noticed that your diagram has a very large margin of 40px. I'm not sure if this is a recent change or not, but you could try reducing this margin or even changing it to a margin-right, since only the right side of the diagram needs some space from the surrounding text.
I noticed this happening on your Interactive Diagrams page, but I assumed it was your doing, since I had just previously fixed the problem with this page.
Wrapping each section in its own <SECTION> tag should have nothing to do with it, and this has been what it does since at least last year. The only change I made recently was to change the lower sections after the first two to display as blocks. This would not affect anything in the first two sections, one of which will usually be where your diagram is found. It will also not affect the ability of elements within the section to wrap around each other. The CSS code you're referring to looks like this:
<STYLE>MAIN>ARTICLE>SECTION + SECTION {display: block; clear: both;}
</STYLE>
This is for a section that follows after another section that is an immediate child of an article that is an immediate child of main. So, it would have no effect on the first section, which is where your diagram is on this page. Besides that, the "display: block;" section is overridden by the "display: inline;" that appears in the HTML for the first two sections. If "clear: both;" had had the intended effect, I would not have needed to change the other sections to display as blocks, which I recently did to stop the text of the Pieces section from wrapping around stuff from earlier sections. Anyway, this code appears to be useless, and deleting it has had no effect. So, it is not the cause of text not wrapping around your diagrams.
I have noticed that your diagram has a very large margin of 40px. I'm not sure if this is a recent change or not, but you could try reducing this margin or even changing it to a margin-right, since only the right side of the diagram needs some space from the surrounding text.