Re: [WSG] specifying width of pre

2005-10-25 Thread Joshua Street
Yeah. I think it's kind of Gmail's fault. You'll note the mailing list signature isn't showing up on my messages, either. I'm sending this message in HTML format in the hope it stays more intact than plain text when the WSG list processes it... there's something seriously wrong with Gmail vs. WSG

RE: [WSG] specifying width of pre

2005-10-25 Thread Peter Williams
From: Joshua Street Yeah. I think it's kind of Gmail's fault. You'll note the mailing list signature isn't showing up on my messages, either. I'm sending this message in HTML format in the hope it stays more intact than plain text when the WSG list processes it... Been through

Re: [WSG] specifying width of pre

2005-10-24 Thread Joshua Street
codeprecontent/pre/code Gives you an alternate parent element which you can then set to scroll or whatever, preventing the content from spilling out across your layout generally. I think. On 10/24/05, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to specify a max

Re: [WSG] specifying width of pre

2005-10-24 Thread Head Chief ,CEO - Poseidon Design Studio
you think hmm, take a look at my content on http://www.mcville.net in a IE browser the content is sliding under the navigation bar LOL :) ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

RE: [WSG] specifying width of pre

2005-10-24 Thread patboens
Hi, The easiest way to define this is to create a division whose overflow attribute is set to auto. example: div style=overflow:auto;width=500px; pre whatever code you want /pre /div Hope it helps. Pat Boens http://www.fastwrite.com -Original Message- Is there any way to

Re: [WSG] specifying width of pre

2005-10-24 Thread Joshua Street
(Yep. Or, if it's code -- I only really ever use pre for that -- as per my example previously, with the same styles.) On 10/25/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The easiest way to define this is to create a division whose overflow attribute is set to auto. example: div

RE: [WSG] specifying width of pre

2005-10-24 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
of the content. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Street Sent: Monday, 24 October 2005 6:32 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] specifying width of pre codeprecontent/pre/code Gives you an alternate parent element

Re: [WSG] specifying width of pre

2005-10-24 Thread Joshua Street
into the rest of the content. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Street Sent: Monday, 24 October 2005 6:32 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] specifying width of pre codeprecontent/pre/code Gives you

Re: [WSG] specifying width of pre

2005-10-24 Thread Jachin Sheehy
If I understand you correctly, you want pre with word-wrap? pre should only be used when the text you want to display is infact preformatted, such as indented code. Applying word-wrap to such text would be by definition to format it (and thus render in un-preformatted (sic)). If the text from

RE: [WSG] specifying width of pre

2005-10-24 Thread Paul Noone
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2005 1:59 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] specifying width of pre Other than a scroll bar (overflow) there is no solution? The reason I need to use pre

Re: [WSG] specifying width of pre

2005-10-24 Thread Kevin Futter
On 25/10/05 1:59 PM, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other than a scroll bar (overflow) there is no solution? The reason I need to use pre is that the content comes from a database that doesn't use HTML br's, but normal linebreaks. So to format the text correctly

RE: [WSG] specifying width of pre

2005-10-24 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
! :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Futter Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2005 2:33 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] specifying width of pre On 25/10/05 1:59 PM, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [WSG] specifying width of pre

2005-10-24 Thread Joshua Street
On 10/25/05, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Normally I would do that, but in this particular case I was hoping not to use server-side formatting of the content. But it seems I will have to revert to that. I have never had any use for the pre tag. Now I thought I

RE: [WSG] specifying width of pre

2005-10-24 Thread Paul Noone
Am I the only one getting blank replies from Joshua? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Street Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2005 3:06 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] specifying width of pre

Re: [WSG] specifying width of pre

2005-10-24 Thread Rick Faaberg
On 10/24/05 10:06 PM Joshua Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out: On 10/25/05, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Normally I would do that, but in this particular case I was hoping not to use server-side formatting of the content. But it seems I will have to

Re: [WSG] specifying width of pre

2005-10-24 Thread Rick Faaberg
On 10/24/05 10:31 PM Paul Noone [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out: Am I the only one getting blank replies from Joshua? I think there're a bunch of funny characters in his posts as I recently posted. Possibly some unicode thing-a-maroo? I can't read his messages.