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Border
I don't see why a border should be put around the timeline. It is already big enough as it is, taking screen sizes into account. Adding a border would, for the sake of aesthetics, require some extra margin, which would make the timeline even more cramped. - Ssolbergj (talk) 16:42, 30 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Any element which isn't part of the article text should be offset somehow. We use borders to separate content from any other type of diagram; there's no reason to make an exception here. Diagrams that use template markup are an inaccessible mess anyway (we should have gotten rid of them a long time ago) and already get a border on mobile, so this is a small readability win until they're converted into a more sensible format. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 19:35, 30 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I don't agree with the notion that "Any element which isn't part of the article text should be offset somehow". It's not true that "We use borders to separate content from any other type of diagram". File:Political System of the European Union.svg is shown in EU without a border, and I think it looks quite nice. In academic literature figures, often with a white background, generally just have a number and a caption, not necessarily a border. The "thumb" is not always necessary or needed IMO. - Ssolbergj (talk) 11:28, 1 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
You're using an image with text embedded in it as an example? That's quite obviously wrong. Nonetheless, this is too much of a mess to bother with simple fixes; it'll need a complete rewrite, and I haven't time for that right now. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 12:53, 3 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
JHA not same as PJCC
Parts of JHA (border controls, visa policy, asylum etc.) turned into EC through the Treaty of Amsterdam. Currently it looks like PJCC contained the same things as JHA, but it didn't. Can someone correct the template? Thanks, --Glentamara (talk) 18:28, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Referencing errors caused by this template
This template causes referencing errors in Common Security and Defence Policy because that article defines its own footnote with {{efn}}. Those definitions get sucked into the {{notelist}} produced by this template, then are undefined in the artilcle. This template includes no documentation, so I can't know how the authors of the template intended it to be used without causing problems in including articles.
I have created a fix that relieves the issue in the Common Security and Defence Policy. I had hoped that a specially-named group would fix the issue, but groups can only be of a certain set because the group name also influences the visual representation of the footnote. Instead, I've changed the template to use lower-roman footnotes, which seem seldomly used throughout the encyclopedia. This gives the footnotes here their own namespcae, so the {{notelist}} invocation the template generates won't interfere with footnotes in the including article ... as long as that article doesn't itself use lower-roman footnotes. This templtae doesn't have any documentation, so I'll add some that explains this limitation. -- Mikeblas (talk) 17:07, 4 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Overlapping text
I have a monitor in portrait orientation, so it's 1080 pixels wide. At this width (but not on my wider monitor), some of the lines of vertical text on this chart overlap and become difficult to read. For example, "S: 5 May/4 April 1949" overlaps with a vertical line, and "F: 3 August/24 August 1949" overlaps with "Paris treaties: ECSC and EDC". -- Beland (talk) 21:04, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Dark mode problems
In dark mode, the underlines signifying a clickable link are hard to see against the light background colors. I can fix this by adding "text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-color:black;" to the styles of the affected elements, but this seems overly verbose. It might be better to overhaul the CSS of this table generally to be more concise and dark-mode-friendly. -- Beland (talk) 03:59, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
