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One way to tell if your content works for all devices, is, of course, to look at it using a smartphone, tablet, and anything else you have available. However, devices of different sizes, screen orientations, operating systems, or configurations may display the same page quite differently.

Luckily, there are various ways to check for portability issues with your content on Fandom, without having to try it out on all kinds of different screens.

Checking for non-portable infoboxes[]

Since infoboxes are a great way to summarize a page's most important facts, they are very popular across article pages in the Fandom network. In fact, about 60 percent of visitors on Fandom look at a page that includes an infobox and very many of them come from a mobile device. See w:Help:Infobox migration for more information.

Checking for portable quotes[]

Quotes are another wildly-popular feature on many article pages. Quotes contain a snippet of spoken or printed words, usually an excerpt from a book or new article, lyrics, or transcribed dialog between one or multiple people. For example:

Quote

Some communities use templates to make quotes look how they want them to. Either way, the way to properly identify quotes from other content is to use the <blockquote> HTML tag either on your article pages or template pages.

Checking for correctly organized templates[]

While viewing or editing template pages, you may notice a new feature that allows you to select what type of template you are editing:

Template type entry point

By selecting the correct type for every template on your wiki, you will help the website understand how you intend the website to render on desktop. We will then have the ability to re-size or rearrange content to make it display correctly on tablets, mobile phones, and whatever comes next.

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