On Jun 18, 2010, at 6:12 PM, Mike wrote: > I used the "inspect element" feature in Safari and got the > following... > > <textarea id="textarea" wrap="soft" > onchange="editArea.execCommand("onchange");" > onfocus="javascript:editArea.textareaFocused=true;" > onblur="javascript:editArea.textareaFocused=false;" classname="null > hidden" class="null hidden" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: > 10pt; width: 100%; height: 1365px; line-height: 15px; margin-left: > -3px; "> </textarea> > > When I toggle the "margin-left: -3px;" attribute off the shadow goes > away. Also, the 'find' function in Safari will report twice as many > matches as there really are...one for the shadow and one for the > primary text. > > > I look though styles.css but didn't anything that looked like it is > setting the margin-left. Any thoughts on where else to look? CSS is > not my strong suite. > > Thanks for your help so far...
This seems like very strange code. I also notice that selecting text in the textarea yields visually strange results. > > Mike > > > On Jun 17, 11:04 pm, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: >> Same problem in IE8 on Windows 7. Actually, I have a very high res >> screen, so I keep IE zoomed at 150%, and the drop shadow is really bad >> at that zoom level. If I take the zoom back to 100%, I don't notice >> much problem, though the text is nearly too small for me to read >> comfortably at that point. Actually, even if I zoom out (e.g., 75%), I >> notice the drop shadow again. So, mostly a problem when not zoomed to >> exactly 100%. >> >> Can't test it on Chrome because the color-coded code doesn't work at >> all for me on Chrome (I just get the basic text box -- no "Toggle >> editor" option). Do I need an extension for it to work in Chrome? >> >> On Jun 17, 10:00 pm, Yarko Tymciurak <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Jun 17, 7:45 pm, Jonathan Lundell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> On Jun 17, 2010, at 5:21 PM, Mike wrote: >> >>>>> Just got an iMac (windows switcher) and ran the latest version of >>>>> web2py from source. However when I opened a controlled in the admin >>>>> editor all the text has a drop shadow behind it which makes it really >>>>> hard to read. Only appears to be an issue with Safari though since >>>>> FireFox looks ok. >> >>> Oh! I didn't believe it - it happens in Firefox-5 also; it's >>> _terrible_ and it's only the code-colored code in the iFrame of the >>> editor (i.e. toggle editor, and it's fine). >> >>>>> Any ideas on how to fix this? Is it CSS or a browser setting? >> >>> It looks ok in Chrome, Firefox, and Opera on my macbook... >> >>>> Seems a little strange. In Safari, a right (control) click in the browser >>>> window should give you a contextual menu with an "inspect element" option. >>>> Use it to inspect a piece of text with the shadow, and look at the Styles >>>> column in the inspector to see where the shadow might be coming from. >> >>> Yeah - you have to enable "Perferences >> Advanced >> Show Develop >>> Menu", then from that menu "Enable Extensions" to get this.... >> >>> It isn't immediately evident to me what this is. >> >>> - Yarko
