Template talk:Shortcut

“Take up to ten (10) shortcuts as parameters” Don’t think so..?
Upon testing, it turns out that this template can take more than 10 shortcuts. I don’t know what the maximum number is. Did I misunderstand something, or should the documentation be edited as necessary? -Colathewikian (talk) 06:18, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I assume it's been outdated since it was turned into a module. Removed. Nardog (talk) 06:30, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
 * For the record, my tests showed around 9 quadrillion parameters, but that was using . It would probably break a lot sooner if you actually put that many shortcuts... C LYDE TALK TO ME/STUFF DONE (I will not see your reply if you don't mention me) 06:56, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 27 February 2022
Please place the shortcut list div inside of the anchor list div, instead of after it. Currently, the browser (Firefox) scrolls not to the box, but about two line heights above it. In the case of MOS:DABBLUE, this makes it look like the shortcut points to the bullet item above the intended one. Paradoctor (talk) 23:43, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting comment.svg Note: Redirected target to module (Where the change would need to be made) Terasail [✉️] 16:25, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
 * ❌ it is not clear what you want to change. Please make your change in the sandbox here: Module:Shortcut/sandbox, test your change, then reactivate the immediate edit request.  If you want to simply further discuss improvements to this module, feel free to continue below. —  xaosflux  Talk 19:05, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Edit request 11 September 2023
Description of suggested change: I'd like to suggest creating an additional anchor for the input, without the prefix (before the colon character); i.e., "" would create anchors for both "MOS:SECTIONCOMMENT" and "SECTIONCOMMENT". It'd cover a common use case, in which an anchor is manually defined before the shortcut:

fgnievinski (talk) 05:04, 11 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Sounds reasonable. Could you make the required change to Module:Shortcut/sandbox? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:10, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Deactivating pending response to Martin's comment. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:41, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Ha, I just came here looking for guidance on exactly this use case. Sounds like a good change to me. —  Will • B  [talk] 18:53, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

Please add a width parameter
This could be useful on more than just help pages.

On a lot of help pages there is this:

Here is how it looks:

But Wikipedia how to is broken, and does not wrap around the shortcut. So in portrait view in a cell phone the how-to text looks weird with a long column of text and a lot of wasted whitespace to the right and left of it. Like the following. I wrapped a narrow table around it so you could see the problem without having to go to your cell phone. Here is how it looks in my iphone SE 2020:

It has been like this for a long time, and has been asked about at WP:VPT, etc., but it is still broke. See:
 * Template talk:Information page
 * Template talk:Wikipedia how-to
 * Village pump (technical)/Archive 204
 * Template talk:Ombox

In the meantime there is an easy fix by putting the shortcut(s) below it. But it needs to be in a wider box. So that it takes up less vertical space in the right sidebar. I used a table below, not the shortcut template.

Like this: --Timeshifter (talk) 22:51, 8 July 2024 (UTC)