Help:How to fix bunched-up edit links

When there is a long strip of right-positioned images or infoboxes together with a number of article sections, it usually causes the section editing links—"[edit]"—for the sections which start after the first and before the last image or infobox to bunch up to the left of it like this: [edit] [edit] [edit] (see Example 1.)

This causes several problems:

  • The edit links often partially overlap with and thus obscure the text.
  • It makes it harder to use section editing when edit links are not associated with their respective sections.
    • Complicating matters further, the edit link positioning varies by browser.
  • It looks terrible.

There are several ways to either avoid or work around this and similar issues, as discussed below. The best (most universally effective) and easiest of these has been formalized in the template {{Fix bunching}}.