Questions tagged [whitespace]
Use for questions about layout aspects that concern the (empty) spacing between elements, the so called whitespace. Also used while editing posts where extra spacing is needed.
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Flag summary has whitespace before comma
For moderators, there's a summary showing who flagged a post in the so-called 'waffle bar' and in the moderator dashboard which shows all pending flags. An example of this is here. If multiple flags ...
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Reduce the width of the right column in the new Ask page
The width of the right column is much larger in the new Ask page.
Old Ask page:
New Ask page:
GIF animation to view the difference: https://i.sstatic.net/vTJxfIKo.gif
Proposal: reduce the width of ...
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Flag history page is missing a space when the user is "Warnedwhen flagging"
On the flag history page, when viewed by ♦ moderators, there's a widget in the right sidebar showing the user's flagging status. It usually says
Not banned from flagging
Not warned when flagging
but ...
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Extra whitespace in Help Center titles
The titles in the Help Center articles have both leading and trailing whitespace. For example, here's the HTML from How to Ask:
<h1 class="s-page-title--header">
How do ...
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Reduce the vertical spacing in the question title on the timeline page [duplicate]
There is too much vertical spacing in the question title on the timeline page when viewed on Chrome with Android. I'd suggest reducing it.
Example from https://stats.stackexchange.com/posts/604021/...
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Missing space in migration banner
This question was migrated from Super User because it can be answered on Meta Stack Exchange.Migrated 4 days ago.
I've noticed this in a couple of migrated questions recently - someone adjusted the ...
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'Thanks for submitting an edit' banner is missing a space
After you submit an edit, the following banner is shown:
Thanks for submitting an edit.It is only visible to you until it’s been approved by trusted community members.
It seems that there is a space ...
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MathJax processing issue - Strange behavior in the editor of "\:" in a formula
I noticed that in some posts, the code of the equations ends with "\:.", but nor "\:", nor ":" themselves appear in the rendered equation (see, e.g., this answer). ...
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Not enough whitespace in starred chat message due to tags
Starred messages in chat don't have enough whitespace between lines, the problem is most visible if there are tags in the message. In the screenshot it can be seen that there isn't one pixel of space ...
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Can we have a little whitespace between lines in user cards?
I just noticed the usercard of our Community Manager Salmon_of_Wisdom in this question, where they made an edit (which was superseded by another edit, yes one by me):
As their username is relatively ...
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Trailing whitespace in collapsed vote score
This one is a design nitpick that I think is worth posting because I've noticed it repeatedly. There's a trailing whitespace in the collapsed vote score if we select it:
But if we compare it with the ...
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Extraneous whitespace in close dialog in Safari
In Safari (16.0) on macOS (12.6), the close dialog has some additional whitespace above the title - it seems to be aligned with the bottom of the close icon:
On other my browsers (Firefox, Chrome) it ...
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Don't treat code blocks as spaces when searching
I wanted to find all the posts containing the phrase call or call. In my case, I'll demonstrate on Stack Overflow, but this happens on Stack Exchange search too, so this isn't just an Stack Overflow ...
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Whitespaces between URLs and punctuation on stackoverflow.co pages
I couldn't help but notice some URLs have whitespaces between the punctuation that follows them in various stackoverflow.co subpages. For example, not using a   in the Media kit page, as shown ...
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Long site names shown in the visible communities in the Profile tab are not truncated, resulting in inconsistent left-column widths
When users have accounts on sites with long names (for example, History of Science and Mathematics) and have them displayed in the visible communities list in the Profile tab, the width of the left ...
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