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Authored by: rcohen on Mon, Jun 30 2008 at 7:41AM PDT

Ah thank you.

Is there a preference setting to prevent horizontal triggering (aka wrap)?

- Rick

Enable/disable 'wrap'?
Authored by: Andreas. on Mon, Jun 30 2008 at 8:35AM PDT

robg would need to answer that as I don't know anything about Geeklog. AFAIK we users can't disable it once a previous post has caused it with a long line containing no spaces or just non-breaking spaces. I would be pleased if we could - it's a nuisance on all sites when it happens.

Andreas

But...
Authored by: Andreas. on Mon, Jun 30 2008 at 8:41AM PDT

robg would need to answer that as I don't know anything about Geeklog.
AFAIK we users can't disable it once a previous post has caused it with
a long line containing no spaces or just non-breaking spaces.
I would be pleased if we could - it's a nuisance on all sites when it happens.

We can, though, be kind to others by doing this!

Andreas

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Authored by: dzurn on Mon, Jun 30 2008 at 10:33AM PDT

Should have this added to the MacOSXHints [pre] tag styles CSS:

pre {
overflow-x: auto; /* Use horizontal scroller if needed; for Firefox 2, not needed in Firefox 3 */
white-space: pre-wrap; /* css-3 */
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap !important; /* Mozilla, since 1999 */
white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4-6 */
white-space: -o-pre-wrap; /* Opera 7 */
word-wrap: break-word; /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */
}

---
Madness takes its toll.
Please have exact change.

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Authored by: robg on Mon, Jun 30 2008 at 12:47PM PDT

The problem isn't the pre code -- well, yes, that's a problem as well. However, if you look at what caused the screen to grow horizontally in this thread, it's a long line of JavaScript *plain text*. However, there aren't any spaces in the JavaScript, so the browser can't figure out where to break it.

I'm not aware of any CSS to handle wrapping of indeterminate-length pure text strings -- but if such a thing exists, please post it!

regards,
-rob.

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