Template talk:Sticky table start

Reenable class stacking

Can you reenable class stacking so I can use both sticky-row1 and sticky-row2 in WTA 1000 Series singles records and statistics#Title leaders? Because of the latest edits sticky-left and sticky-none useless can't fix the span issues in mobile. Related discussion for sticky-table-left and sicky-table-none classes in #Need help with class="sticky-table-unsticky".Qwerty284651 (talk) 18:34, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

@Qwerty284651: That won't fix your issue. Because of the rowspan, you have to use sticky-table-head to make both rows top sticky. If row1 and row2 were used, the botton of the rowspans would stick out below row2 once the latter is sticky. Jroberson108 (talk) 23:57, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

That solved it. Qwerty284651 (talk) 00:11, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

I would update the doc that "adding sticky-table-row1 or -row2 disables sticky-table-head's feature of making both rows sticky". See example. Qwerty284651 (talk) 00:15, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

It does say limit one and don't combine and gives reasons. More can be added, but they need to read it. Jroberson108 (talk) 00:17, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

It does say that. Now I know. Qwerty284651 (talk) 00:23, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

Visual editor issues

It seems like Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/United States medical cases by state has become harder to edit visually after using Sticky Table. I would appreciate if you know how to resolve this. Horizon Sunset (talk) 16:55, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

@Horizon Sunset: I'll try to look at it later. Can you explain how it is harder to edit so I know what to look for? Jroberson108 (talk) 17:03, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

If you go to my sandbox (which had the version before your edits, except I removed the invalid .css which you also removed) and click on visual editor, you can edit each cell's data. But if you go to Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/United States medical cases by state and click on "Edit with visual editor", it shows that you are editing parameters of a template instead. I am trying to make this better by reducing number of parameters within the table. Horizon Sunset (talk) 22:12, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

@Horizon Sunset: I moved the discussion to this template's talk so other's are also aware.

I narrowed the issue down to having two opening div tags in the start template and two closing div tags in the end template. Adding the div tags around the table without the template did not cause an issue. Removing one of the two div tags from each template did not cause an issue, so VE might be doing some minimal correction in it's parsing.

VE has a list of "Template issues" at Wikipedia:VisualEditor#Limitations, specifically "Unbalanced code". I don't see a way to exclude the div tags from VE. Jroberson108 (talk) 01:41, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

@Horizon Sunset: I started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor#Exclude transcluded unbalanced code. Will see if a solution exists. Jroberson108 (talk) 02:23, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

@Jroberson108: I really appreciate that, thank you so much:). Horizon Sunset (talk) 02:40, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

Have you tried putting the sticky table templates inside <includeonly>...</includeonly> tags on the template page? That might make it editable while maintaining the features you want when it is transcluded. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:20, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: I assume from your sandbox edits that you saw the tags already exist in each template. Jroberson108 (talk) 10:41, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

I haven't tried includeonly tags in the sandbox. I just added them to Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/United States medical cases by state/sandbox. Is that editable with VE? – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:41, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: This template and {{sticky table end}} both already have includeonly tags in them, also in their sandboxes too. Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/United States medical cases by state/sandbox seems editable with VE now, although adding "includeonly" tags around the template transclusions doesn't seem feasible for other pages. Jroberson108 (talk) 15:58, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I know about the tags in Sticky table start, but those don't matter once the template is transcluded somewhere else. Excluding the Sticky table templates from rendering on the page where the table needs to be edited appears to work around this shortcoming in VE. You don't give an example of a page where it is not feasible, so I can't comment on that assertion. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:31, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: Not being feasible is in regards to having to add it to all 314 pages that transclude this template as well as expecting editors to add these extra tags around future transclusions, something I have yet to see done in this way with other templates. I see at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor#Exclude transcluded unbalanced code that another person said there is no easy and reliable way to fix it. Minimum, a note can be added to the doc explaining VE's issue. Jroberson108 (talk) 02:10, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

If you don't want to implement this workaround, then putting a note in the documentation is probably the way to go. I found {{Vedit notice}}, but I did not find a similar standardized template that states the opposite (which surprised me). – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:19, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Neither id nor anchor worked properly inside table

Please see Template talk:Anchor#neither id nor anchor worked properly in one case. --Altenmann >talk 21:24, 7 May 2025 (UTC)