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**hastalavista** · 10-08-2004 11:39 AM

I really like this site and the people it attracks.
But can't something be done about the width of the content?
Often i have to vertically scroll to read a post and then horizontally to read more, you have to scroll so often.

i'm using safari 1.2

regards

**DaveSW** · 10-08-2004 12:55 PM

I've never used safari, but in IE the reason for horizontal scrolling is that some people use the code tag, which prevents line breaks, hence widening the entire page.
Horizontal scrolling to posts is around the adverts, which the forum wouldn't be able to run without...
so on the whole, no, nothing can be done.

**hastalavista** · 10-08-2004 04:17 PM

code? you mean pre?

how can i prevent this?
by hitting enter before i get to the right side of the textaera i'm now typing in?

**Stephen Philbin** · 10-08-2004 06:01 PM

You could always just whack down the font size when you're in a "wide thread" I suppose.

**rhsunderground** · 10-08-2004 06:44 PM

i haven't seen any problems with this site in safari on OS X. which OS is on the computer?

**DaveSW** · 10-09-2004 06:09 AM

this line will not break so you should now get horizontal scolling in this thread unless ofcourse you have a very high screen resolution in which case you will have paid a lot of money for your monitor and graphics card which no doubt are of very high quality though I suppose you could be using a cheap monitor and graphics card but just have them at unreadable resolutions... That's the code tag I referred to. Use CODE in sqyare brackets in the reply box. basically it gives you syntax highlighting, but removes screen breaks. Some people use it and it then ends up with horzontal scrolling. Post a reply when you have read this and I will remove it because it bugs me too.

[edit]Code tags removed 'cos I'm fed up of them now[/edit]

**davidbrent** · 10-10-2004 05:21 PM

oh how i hate that.

**David Harrison** · 10-11-2004 05:59 PM

I use code tags as well, mainly for posting JavaScript in, looking at code is the one time when you don't want line breaks so it's OK.

I know that sometimes people post code with insanely long lines in it and that sucks but what can you do?
It's code, if there were line breaks in it, it just wouldn't work.

**Stephen Philbin** · 10-11-2004 08:07 PM

I would say why not have a little symbol at a code-breaking line break. But I'm assuming it's rare (if ever) that the source for these forums gets tweaked?

**DaveSW** · 10-12-2004 09:18 AM

yes.

**Jona** · 10-14-2004 12:07 AM

Originally posted by Mr Herer
I would say why not have a little symbol at a code-breaking line break. But I'm assuming it's rare (if ever) that the source for these forums gets tweaked?

But then copy and pasting would be very difficult. I don't like horizontal scrollbars, but I'm glad that the CODE tags allow for preformatted text to appear exactly as it was written on the page.

**Fang** · 10-14-2004 03:12 AM

Scroll the code box only when it's too big:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>code scroller</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

<style type="text/css">
<!-- 
.codebox {
width:80%;
}
.codecontent {
width:100%;
overflow:auto;
overflow-y:hidden;
padding:0 0.5em 1em 0.5em;
margin-bottom:0;
}
-->
</style>

</head>
<body>
<blockquote class="codebox"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica" size="1" >code:</font><hr /><pre class="codecontent">
<!-- user's code -->
</pre><hr /></blockquote>
</body>
</html>

A little css and shift the second <hr>

**David Harrison** · 10-14-2004 06:06 AM

I think that's similar to what vBulliten 3 does, only the "code" block scrolls.

You could always add it to a users style sheet and apply it to the page with the web-dev toolbar extension.

**Fang** · 10-14-2004 06:12 AM

Just tried that. It does work, but you have to reload it after a page refresh.

**David Harrison** · 10-14-2004 09:14 AM

I think that there's a "persist styles" option somewhere. I can't remember where, it's been a while since I've used Firefox.

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