Yes. Using the dedicated parameter allows you to use the cascading part of CSS, namely that the CSS in the child will apply after, not before the core TemplateStyles. This avoids the case where the child's styles are potentially overridden by styles of the same specificity in the core styles. You should generally always use these parameters. Izno (talk) 06:03, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Izno: Is it right not to treat Module:Navbar/styles.css in add_list_styles() whether sidebar has a navbar or not? If an article page transcludes a sidebar (with a navbar) and another navbar in this order, the styles doesn't seem to be applied on mobile view. 本日晴天 (talk) 15:42, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
add_list_styles is just for the two kinds of lists and is about the classes that have been added since eternity in the several templates (infobox also). Both navbox and sidebar have instead move_hiding_templatestyles which will take care of embedded TemplateStyles tags. Izno (talk) 17:32, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ruling both out. I can reinstate vertical-navbox if we prefer just to make it more opaque ;). It's not about how narrow or wide sidebars are, it's about how much HTML they dump into the page that isn't used in mobile. Izno (talk) 20:19, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Which maybe doesn't make my true preference clear of course - which is that everything is displayed at all resolutions (or at least until this module is deleted, which is probably my truest preference, for various reasons). What I'm doing is respecting the WMF's choice to remove these elements from mobile. Izno (talk) 20:22, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Should there be a way to automatically open up the relevant section of the sidebar?
After Template:Feminism sidebar got reorganized, a bunch of transclusions no longer automatically expand the correct section. For example, the article Feminist theory in composition studies automatically expands the "Concepts" section even though the article is now listed under the "Theory" section. Something I realized is that expanding the section that contains a link to the current article might be something that could be done automatically, so that editors no longer have to manually specify the section to auto-expand on every article where a sidebar is included. PBZE (talk) 19:39, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
