Editing Template talk:Infobox (section)

== Can the blank rows on child infoboxes be fixed? ==

(This discussion started at [[Template talk:Infobox social media personality#Layout]] when a user reported an infobox with two blank rows. I'm copying over my text from there.)

The blank rows are related to embedding using {{para|child|yes}}. Almost all of the [[Template:Infobox social media personality/testcases|testcases]] have a blank line or two, on both desktop and mobile, with this markup:

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" style="overflow: auto"><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1316064257"></td></tr></syntaxhighlight>

One blank line is always created at the beginning of this wrapper template (in-between {{tl|Infobox person}}'s rows and the custom rows for this infobox), and a second is created when embedding this template into another. Both are direct results of {{para|child|yes}}, which creates a blank row where {{para|title}} would be listed. It simply does not suppress this row if the title is left blank. The blank row does NOT occur if you embed using {{para|subbox|yes}} instead.
This issue is actually already mentioned at [[Template:Infobox#Embedding]]. A workaround/solution is listed but it would have to be applied everywhere that {{para|child|yes}} is used. This is something that should be fixed directly at [[Module:Infobox]] instead.
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Can this possibly be fixed by someone familiar with how this module functions? I've searched through the talk page archives and it seems like this [[Template_talk:Infobox/Archive_18#Fix_for_empty_cells_with_child_boxes|issue may have been fixed in the past.]] [[User:Prefall|<span style="color: #990000">Pre</span>]]'''[[User talk:Prefall|<span style="color: #990000">fall</span>]]''' 21:09, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

:The lack of suppression for this row is not shocking. It has to do with how infobox just magically sucks up child infoboxes into its structure. (That hack may somewhen go away, but not anytime soon.)
:@[[User:Frietjes|Frietjes]], if you're around, since you solved some of this the last go around. [[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 23:53, 16 October 2025 (UTC)
:: [[User:Izno|Izno]], it's been sometime since I looked at this code.  my guess right now is that if we change the code block starting near line 52 to move the categories and templatestyles outside of the cells and to the top of the output this could fix the problem.  I will try to find some time to look at it, but I need to brush up on my string processing commands first. [[User:Frietjes|Frietjes]] ([[User talk:Frietjes|talk]]) 17:05, 20 October 2025 (UTC)
:::{{ping|Frietjes}} I know you have a ton of other things you are working on, but I just want to voice that I would '''love''' to see this fixed... It is causing an issue with basically anything that uses {{para|module}} via [[Module:Template wrapper]]. For example all the Infoboxes in {{clc|Category:Templates calling Infobox sportsperson}} or {{clc|Category:Templates calling Infobox person}} have this issue. If I can be helpful in anyway, please ping me! '''[[User:Zackmann08|<span style="color:#00ced1">Zack</span><span style="color:#007F94">mann</span>]]''' (<sup>[[User_talk:Zackmann08|Talk to me]]</sup>/<sub>[[Special:Contributions/Zackmann08|<span style="color:orange;">What I been doing</span>]]</sub>) 07:25, 22 October 2025 (UTC)
::::{{u|Zackmann08}}, feel free to work on it if you want.  the "fixChildBoxes" function is supposed to make the output tidy by making sure the td, th, and tr tags are properly matched, but that might not be working either right now.  the two ways I can see making this work are (a) have the generated empty rows styled with "display:none" or (b) detect when a child box is being passed without any content outside of the child box and insert that directly, without having it inside of a table cell.  the second option seems nicer since it doesn't have extra blank rows marked as "display:none".  [[User:Frietjes|Frietjes]] ([[User talk:Frietjes|talk]]) 17:12, 22 October 2025 (UTC)
:::::{{ping|Frietjes}} so this may be beyond my talents, but I'll take a stab at it tonight. '''[[User:Zackmann08|<span style="color:#00ced1">Zack</span><span style="color:#007F94">mann</span>]]''' (<sup>[[User_talk:Zackmann08|Talk to me]]</sup>/<sub>[[Special:Contributions/Zackmann08|<span style="color:orange;">What I been doing</span>]]</sub>) 17:20, 22 October 2025 (UTC)
::::::Tried anything yet? [[User:Cosmo Skerry|Cosmo Skerry]] ([[User talk:Cosmo Skerry|talk]]) 22:22, 23 October 2025 (UTC)
:::::::I will confess I have not... I've been stuck on other projects. {{smiley|sad}} '''[[User:Zackmann08|<span style="color:#00ced1">Zack</span><span style="color:#007F94">mann</span>]]''' (<sup>[[User_talk:Zackmann08|Talk to me]]</sup>/<sub>[[Special:Contributions/Zackmann08|<span style="color:orange;">What I been doing</span>]]</sub>) 22:26, 23 October 2025 (UTC)