Megan — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:27:20 +0000

Thank you! Much better.

Wil — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:07:57 +0000

Good job, Chad!

Ugh - the submit reply, preview buttons should be left-aligned to make sure they appear the same place. Or create a seperate table for them underneath the message.

Mark Hensler — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 07:18:11 +0000

Excelent!

(submit reply & etc. buttons are now centered wayy wayy over there now)

Chad Simper — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 05:40:34 +0000

This annoyance should now be taken care of. And posts with code in them will extend as far as they need to while the rest of the posts will remain within the normal screen parameters. You will have to scroll to see the code if it is longer than the screen allows but at least the whole thread is not screwed up.

Chad Simper — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 06:09:13 +0000

A way long piece of text that is so long that it extends this table but shouldn't extend other posts .... I am just trying to make a really really really really really really really really long sentence and I think I have.... '

mairving — Sat, 09 Feb 2002 19:18:45 +0000

The [ php ] tag apparently also causes the same problem so it should be fixed also.

Wil — Sat, 09 Feb 2002 18:01:08 +0000

Chad

Yes, that is done on a couple of forums. The way to do that is to break each message up into individual tables, instead of multiple TRs of the same table. Easily done, and looks good.

The other, very very ugly way to do it would to have the templates makrup CODE information in < TEXTAREA > fields. Ugh!

Gurudev — Fri, 08 Feb 2002 21:43:18 +0000

If they are using

 tags, the reason for that is so the code appears as it was intended to be.  Otherwise, the code will be in html and all the formatting will disappear.

The only way to do this (as far as I know) is by using  tags.  I have an article database where I use  tags so the tabs and breaks appear properly.  But these articles (.txt) are submitted by other visitors to the site and if they do not format it properly the lines extend wide.  If I don't use the  tags the everything will appear in one paragraph and makes no sense.  I have been looking for a solution for this problem myself and haven't found another way to do it.

If it is possible to retain the formatting and at the same time make sure the lines do not extend after a ceartin specified width, then let me know.

thanks

PS - don't mention any formatting within tables as it does not make a difference once  tags are used, even inside the tables.

disaster-master — Thu, 07 Feb 2002 04:45:34 +0000

I saw Megans post this morning on this so I went back to one that I had posted code on last night and just broke it up a bit so that it would go way out to the right field.

(that is when i discovered that i posted to a thread that was started in 1999....opps)

Anyway, breaking it up will work fine for me. not a problem. Just have to remember to do it.

Chad Simper — Thu, 07 Feb 2002 04:14:04 +0000

Actually, a resolution to this problem has been on my to-do list for a couple weeks now when I first noticed it and it annoyed me

What will happen is when a post has the code tag in it, it will be ignored for the standard table tags... Only the post that has the code tag in it will break the page limits... All other posts will look as normal. I've seen this done on a couple forums and I just have to study how they made it happen.