[Theforum] Evolt redesign - user choice

rudy r937 at interlog.com
Tue Jan 22 11:55:10 CST 2002


>http://test.evolt.org/article/theforum/17/16286/
>
>support for this is spotty

ayup

win95 ie5  there's no vertical scrollbar in them boxen


>how are other sites dealing with long lines of <pre></pre> text?

break up the lines where desired, and insert a "continued" character (could
be a 16x16 image, those work well)

for example,

      <pre>
      &lt;OBJECT
         classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
         codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/
     ==>     cabs/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0"
         ID=cands_intro WIDTH=290 HEIGHT=320
         longdesc="webpage.html" accesskey="6"&gt;
      </pre>

note the syntax allows breaks between attribute/value pairs, but not within
the url, so that's where the continuation character comes in

not a clean cut & paste operation like the textarea, but looks better than
most textareas

and a lot of the code we're putting into textareas wouldn't need the
continuation character in a <pre>..</pre> block at all, being short enough
not to kill the layout


rudy






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