Template talk:Messagebox

On my browser (IE7), this template creates a message box with no right border. Is anyone else seeing this? JW 22:57, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

If I view it in IE, it appears that the box is too long for the central "column" in the Wikia page layout, so the right border gets cut off by the advertisements bar. (I also lose a word or two, depending on my window size.) I assume Derik can fix that. I could probably figure it out, but, it would take me a while to decipher the code. Derik hopefully remembers it well enough to adjust it quickly. --Steve-o 05:45, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Two years and a change from Wikia later, and the box is still getting cut off on the right on IE. It works right if I turn on Compatibility View, but I don't want to do that for every single page. Can anyone fix this? We still get a lot of traffic from IE users - 42.33%, according to our Google Analytics - so it's broken for like half our userbase. --Monzo 12:27, 9 December 2009 (EST)

I believe I've fixed it, though the change will take a while to propagate to everywhere the message box appears. --abates 15:25, 9 December 2009 (EST)

Yaaayy! *Kermit flail* --Monzo 17:54, 9 December 2009 (EST)

Talk pages: odd recursion

The recent User:Leader-One's talkpage being nominated for deletion brought up a odd bug in... something. The wat the messagebox template links to a talk page is [[(page type) talk:page name]] e.x User talk:FortMax. This works fine because "User talk" is defined as the talk format for "User".

The problem is when a messagebox template is used on a talk page. "___ talk:" has no defined talk page heading, so the only way a talk page's talk page will show the talk page in the "article tab" is if the talk page's talk page is at [[Talk:_____ talk:________]]. This puts a link to [[_____ talk:______]] in the article tab. However, messagebox template in a talk page links to [[_______ talk talk:___________]], which shows up as an article with a talk page at [[Talk:______ talk talk:__________]] I set something up at User:FortMax/sandbox/Template:Tobedeletedtest

I have way too much time on my hands. --FortMax 18:41, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

I noticed that long ago. I seem to recall reading about that bug getting fixed back on Wikipedia, but I can't remember how. Let me dig up something. ---Blackout- 13:22, 9 December 2009 (EST)