Editing Module talk:Message box (section)

==CSS instead of tables==
{{moved discussion from|Template talk:Ambox#CSS instead of tables|[[User:Sapphaline|Sapphaline]] ([[User talk:Sapphaline|talk]]) 10:25, 20 August 2025 (UTC)}}
Could this thing use <code><nowiki><div style="display:table;"></nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki><div style="display:table-cell;"></nowiki></code> instead of literal tables and table cells (<code><nowiki><table></nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki><td></nowiki></code>)? 

Were the any previous attempts to remake this using <code><nowiki><div></nowiki></code>? If so, what was the consensus? [[User:Sapphaline|Sapphaline]] ([[User talk:Sapphaline|talk]]) 09:46, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

:A long time ago this would have been converted to divs but apparently IE sucked (this should not be news).
:Today, I have [[User:Izno/Sandbox/Ambox]] with what are some skimmings and started a sandbox at [[Module:Message box/div]]. I have just done a very bad job of finishing this work. [[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 22:09, 24 August 2025 (UTC)
::Which might be closer to done than not, honestly. I think what it currently needs is to
::# Double check the ambox work
::# Add "soft" support for the other kinds of boxes (where soft is defined as module-supports but config disabled)
::# Merge tested /div version but not CSS into main
::# Enable boxes of each kind one by one.
::#* Leave ambox for penultimate as the most likely to cause some mass noise in a way
::#* Probably somewhere around here do ombox, [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=insource%3A%2FMessage%5B%20_%5Dbox%5C%2Fombox%5C.css%2F%20-intitle%3A%2F(%5BSs%5Dandbox%7C%5C%2Fdoc)%2F&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns10=1&ns828=1 that has some needed coordination]
::#* Leave tmbox for ultimate, there is work to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=insource%3A%2FMessage%5B%20_%5Dbox%5C%2Ftmbox%5C.css%2F%20-intitle%3A%2F(%5BSs%5Dandbox%7C%5C%2Fdoc)%2F&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns10=1&ns828=1 coordinate]
::# Fix bugs that are identified
::# Move CSS over to better-named stylesheet
::# Delete the /div CSS (I won't be too sad)
::# Remove main support for table versions, possibly rename some things
::[[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 22:42, 24 August 2025 (UTC)
::I have now put this plan in a publicly editable place at [[Module:Message box/div/doc]]. [[User:Izno|Izno]][[User:IznoPublic|Public]] ([[User talk:Izno#top|talk]]) 00:26, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
::Hi! I didn't know you were doing this, so I made something similar. It seems to work:
::* Module: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Module%3AMessage_box%2Fsandbox&diff=1310791170&oldid=1300331049]
::* Styles: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Module%3AMessage_box%2Fsandbox%2Fambox.css&diff=1310791252&oldid=1305438959]
:: [[User:Iniquity|Iniquity]] ([[User talk:Iniquity|talk]]) 16:57, 11 September 2025 (UTC)
:::Yes, I did it in its own sandbox because it's a longterm enough project not to be done in the main sandbox, which should generally be releasable ad hoc for trivial issues. [[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 17:03, 11 September 2025 (UTC)
:::And also, there are enough other dependencies that "just change the two or three places" isn't going to fly. [[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 17:06, 11 September 2025 (UTC)
::::Where else do you think this will affect? It seems that only the mobile version is oriented towards <syntaxhighlight inline lang="css">table.ambox</syntaxhighlight>, which can also be corrected by CSS [[User:Iniquity|Iniquity]] ([[User talk:Iniquity|talk]]) 17:09, 11 September 2025 (UTC)
:::::I have already documented in [[Module:Message box/div/doc]] multiple places that will need careful work, ambox among them. Please feel free to peruse and ask questions about what's there and why. [[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 17:41, 11 September 2025 (UTC)
::::::Thanks! [[User:Iniquity|Iniquity]] ([[User talk:Iniquity|talk]]) 17:47, 11 September 2025 (UTC)
:What's broken here? I've probably wrong but AFAIK for accessibility the existing role="presentation" should suffice. [[User:Aaron Liu|<span class="skin-invert" style="color:#0645ad">Aaron Liu</span>]] ([[User talk:Aaron Liu#top|talk]]) 23:21, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
::You should always endeavor to use the default aria role element. In this case, that's not a table. Ignoring that, tables are shit for doing other presentation with. [[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 03:20, 29 August 2025 (UTC)
:::This /div work is great work, thanks for this <span class="fn nickname" style="color:#CD0000">[[User:Waddie96|waddie96]] ★ ([[User talk:Waddie96|talk]])</span> 19:49, 8 September 2025 (UTC)