Template talk:Infobox legislature

Dark mode problem

The number of seats in the image (which shows different parties' seats as colored dots) is always black. This is a problem in dark mode, where the background is very dark grey. mw:Recommendations for night mode compatibility on Wikimedia wikis has some suggested solutions. -- Beland (talk) 18:57, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

For example, see the black "81" in the infobox on Federal Senate (Brazil). -- Beland (talk) 19:00, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Fix broken background_color in dark mode

The background_color parameter is supposed to set the 2px border above and below section headers, but in dark mode this is overridden by border-color: var(--border-color-subtle, #c8ccd1) !important; under these 2 selectors in the theme CSS:

html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .navbox-title:not(.notheme) (dark mode selected)

html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .navbox-title:not(.notheme) (automatic selected)

I believe this can be fixed by replacing all instances of {{{background_color}}} with {{{background_color}}} !important in the template, but since this is so widely used I wanted to see what more experienced template editors think before changing it. I can't see it causing any issues unless the theme overriding is intentional and has been discussed somewhere I couldn't find.

This can also be fixed on a page-by-page basis by using !important in the background_color param (see here), but since it effects all legislature pages it seems best to fix the template. Jamedeus (talk) 22:24, 5 October 2025 (UTC)