Arthur
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Text outside margins of my browser
I'm starting to see posts that aren't contained within the margins of my browser -- they just run endlessly off to the right and I have to keep
scrolling to read th'em. I haven't changed any settings, so is this caused by the person posting?
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Ben
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It is not your computer.
It happens when someone post a photo that is too large or some other reason that I do not understand.
It has been stated that there is a fault in the software that allows this to happen...it is a pain in the butt.
Inside every older person there is a younger person wondering what happened.
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Arthur
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When you're setting up a web page you can set it to automatically resize, or to contain the text in a given-size window, and I suspect it's something
to do with that. Anyway, I'm not so surprised by graphics doing it (someone just did it in a La Paz thread on Q&A, but I can't figure how text ends up
running off that way.
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Ben
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Beats me.
When I push the on button I have exhausted 50% of my computer knowledge.
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Diver
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If you are viewing this web page with your "Favorites" or something else, open on the side; try closing it.
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BajaNomad
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The expanded width is by someone doing one of two things in the table cell that posts are placed into:
A) An image wider than the standard width of the cell (whether by BB code or an attachment), or:
B) Unbroken text.
There are issues among different browsers and how they handle certain information in the code, and that's where the issue really lies... is in the
coding behaviors... or really, the behaviors of the browsers with the code as written. Really, there is no "fix" for this issue in the base HTML
code, as tables will fit everything into them that is placed there. These table cells have set widths that are really taken by the browsers as set
minimums, not maximums.
There is some interesting CSS (cascading style sheets) code that might be of help, but I'd need to explore that more. And really, with the BB code
being the culprit with the images, well, that just adds to the challenge.
Unbroken text example:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Oh, and btw... the text runs wide because the table cell runs wide, and if the writer didn't use any line breaks, well, then it's going to run the
width of the table cell - and if someone's widened the table cell, then that's the way it's going to go.
I know one BBS software that if one post runs wide, it's only THAT post... which means each post is it's own table as opposed to an additional row of
the main table.
That would probably be a more realistic thing for me to look into if I was to change any code....
...and the reality is I probably wouldn't do any of the above without upgrading to the most recent version of the software to see how it's being
handled currently.
And yes, I do have a new version installed (secretly) elsewhere on this site that I'm testing things out with. Have been for awhile - as there hasn't
been much rush, because there's only a few new things - as far as features are concerned - that are different. The code is much more efficient though
- or so I've been told. That, is of benefit in running a busy site, which this is turning into.
Regards,
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Doug
[Edited on 3-6-2005 by BajaNomad]
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bajalera
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Thanks for all that info, you all. I get one of those too-wide things every once in a while too--for no reason I can figure out except that my
computer just doesn't like me.
bajalera
\"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest never happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.\" -
Mark Twain
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