https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28388

--- Comment #4 from Happy-melon <[email protected]> 2011-04-02 
18:46:16 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> That is right for this subsection.
> 
> Since many do not have labels, it is not true for other subsections. For
> example in the subsection following this one, I sugest to shrink the left
> column away for all rows but one.

Alignment should not be inconsistent within sections; the start of each input
should line up.  See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Style_guide/Forms etc.  

> My general suggestion is "more flexibility".

Flexibility is the enemy of consistency, and consistency is an important part
of accessibility.  

> Occasionally, "Label Input Space" is bad for i18n, and "Text1 Input Text2" was
> a better way to go. See also:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation#Have_message_elements_before_and_after_input_fields

You added (http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?diff=246667) that yourself;
don't then cite it as independent support :P  I do understand that it may make
sense from a localisation perspective, but that's missing the point of the
form: a form is there to capture data, and the data is different to the
description, and different to the errors.  We certainly need to flip the layout
in RTL languages; that's something we don't currently do and that's bad.  But
breaking up the alignment or semantic separation is not a good idea.

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