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Monastery Gates page is too wide

by dmmiller2k (Chaplain)
on Sep 29, 2004 at 14:53 UTC ( [id://394999]=monkdiscuss: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

Am I the only one experiencing this?

The Monastary Gates page is rendered too wide. None of the other pages on the site seem to have this problem.

What happens is that the ad on top, the title bar and the "The Monastary Gates" page heading (along with the standard navigation links, up through "Need Help?") seem to correctly follow the width of my browser window.

The remainder of the page starting with the line, "Donations Gladly accepted" and below ("New Questions", "New Meditations", etc.) and including the nodelets, is rendered wider than the browser window and doesn't seem to change when I shrink or expand the width of the window; it is displayed with a horizontal scrollbar, which must be scrolled to the right to see all of the text or the nodelets.

It seems that every other page on the site adjusts to follow the width of my browser window, and the nodelets bar nestles correctly over to the right side of the window.

At first it started to do this when I added:

textarea { width: 100%; }

into the CSS in my User Settings, but even removing it now has no ameliorative effect. Also, I seem to be totally incapable of devising a search string which results in nodes relating to Perlmonks' CSS problems any more recent than 2 years old.

I know I haven't been here in awhile, but there must be a better way to chastise me..

dmm

Procrastinate NOW! Don't put it off... --Ellen Denegerous

2006-10-20 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines

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Original title: 'Monastary Gates page is too wide'

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Re: Monastery Gates page is too wide
by SciDude (Friar) on Sep 29, 2004 at 17:26 UTC

    I too experience this problem (in all browsers). My guess is that we both followed the advice for a larger textarea as you describe above.

    After some experimentation, I made the following changes to fix the problem:

    textarea { width: 75%; height: 25em; }

    And through some quirk of fate, I added a lengthy url to my Personal Nodelet that forces the nodelet bar to be wider than normal.

    Now I enjoy the Monastery without the annoying horizontal scroll bar you mention above, my chatterbox is a nice width for reading, and I still have a sufficiently large textarea for comfortable use.


    SciDude
    The first dog barks... all other dogs bark at the first dog.
      You're the winner! Changing my textarea to 75% worked! I no longer have ultra wide front pages.

      Thanks for all the great suggestions everyone.

      dmm

      Procrastinate NOW! Don't put it off... --Ellen Denegerous
      Setting TextArea.width to 95% is even better, since it is closer to my original intent, but the effect upon the front page that I was experiencing is still gone.

      Thanks again for the tip.

      dmm

      Procrastinate NOW! Don't put it off... --Ellen Denegerous
Re: Monastery Gates page is too wide
by hossman (Prior) on Sep 29, 2004 at 18:43 UTC

    You're probably seeing what you see because of your Code-Wrapping settings.

    If you aren't using "Auto Code Wrapping" and if "Code Wrap Length" is large (or blank so you get the default of 70) then the width of the main body of the monastery gates is determined by how how long the lines of code are in nodes currently on the front page.

    Even if you are using "Auto Code Wrapping" then he browser is making the call on which soft-hyphen to wrap at, so your results may vary.

    If you uncheck "Auto Code Wrapping" and set "Code Wrap Length" to something small (like 40) you'll find that the Gates are very slim indeed.

      If you aren't using "Auto Code Wrapping" and if "Code Wrap Length" is large (or blank so you get the default of 70) then the width of the main body of the monastery gates is determined by how how long the lines of code are in nodes currently on the front page.

      What you say here is incorrect. Based on your later statements, I think you meant to s/aren't/are/ and are just a little inaccurate on the last part (it isn't the length of lines but the length of unbroken runs of non-whitespace characters, roughly).

      The most common reasons for pages rendering too wide are:

      1. Someone put a long line inside of a <pre> tag. This will affect everyone. /msg the author or solicit one of the janitors to fix the problem, usually by replacing the <pre> tags with <code> tags.
      2. Someone put a really long string containing no whitespace in their node. This will affect everyone, though some browsers wrap on certain non-whitespace characters (and one browser, IE, is crazy enough to not wrap on certain types of whitespace such as spaces followed by slashes). Similar procedure for requesting a fix, which would probably be putting the really long string into <code> tags with a newline.
      3. The viewing monk has "Auto Code Wrap" turned on, some code in a node contains a long string that contains no whitespace, and the viewing monk is either using a browser that doesn't support soft hyphen or has "Code Wrap Length" set fairly high. The most common reason used to be that the browser doesn't support soft hyphen (for quite a while, only IE supported soft hyphen, but now many of the newest browser releases support it).

        This will only affect the monk who has their settings misconfigured. If you see a very wide node and report it in the chatterbox and others don't see the problem, then you should check for this problem and probably turn off "Auto Code Wrap" (or upgrade your browser or set your code wrap width to something likely between 20 and 40).

      4. The viewing monk simply has code wrapping disabled (and a node contains code that contains long lines). Like the previous item, this will only affect the monk with these settings so check yours (and turn code wrapping back on).

      Clean this up and it might make a nice "faqlet" (site documentation node) on "Why does the page render so wide?" (or whatever).

      - tye        

        Firefox 1.0.4 still doesn't support &#173 aka &shy; (which PM uses), but it does support &#8203 and <wbr>.
        So, this means Auto Code Wrap is currently broken in Firefox.
      Nope, sorry. This was happening long before there was such a thing as code wrapping, I just never took the time to figure it out or post a query about it before. Thanks anyway.

      dmm

      Procrastinate NOW! Don't put it off... --Ellen Denegerous
Re: Monastery Gates page is too wide
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Sep 29, 2004 at 16:22 UTC

    FP looks ok to me. It may just have been a node that was too wide being misdisplayed. To find CSS related nodes do a Super Search for "site css", or just 'css' but restrict to 'PMD' and 'CODE'/Snippets or do a "site CSS lsdfgjldkfghkldfj" normal search.


    ---
    demerphq

      First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
      -- Gandhi

      Flux8


      Thanks, but it wasn't "a node", it happened all the time, apprently regardless of what was on the front page.

      dmm

      Procrastinate NOW! Don't put it off... --Ellen Denegerous
Re: Monastery Gates page is too wide
by DrHyde (Prior) on Sep 30, 2004 at 08:46 UTC
    I see this occasionally. The solution is to think "oh, HTML is being shit again" and ignore it.
Re: Monastery Gates page is too wide
by jonnybe (Scribe) on Sep 30, 2004 at 21:18 UTC
    Hi all, Disclaimer...this is my first attempt at playing with style sheets. Any pointers would be welcome. Also, this was only tested on Firefox 0.9.

    On main pages such as The Gates, there are no class or ID definitions in the table tags so I can't figure out how to narrow the "reply to" column.

    Lines that don't wrap, will continue on past the margins and won't be completely visible.

    Jon

    /*** Force all tables to use hard dimensions. Exceptions will have to be handled individually due to lack of class and id declarations on certain tables. ***/ table { table-layout: fixed; } /*** For some reason the monkbar is too long. This may need to change depending on your setup. ***/ table#monkbar { width: 85%; } /*** The section links were cut off. ***/ td.titlechooser { width: 40%; } /*** My prefered width for the main area. ***/ td.main_content { width: 85%; } /*** Big text editing box for replies. ***/ textarea { width: 100%; height: 25em; } /*** When viewing a node with replies, the replies table needs to be set back to auto ***/ table#replies_table { table-layout: auto; )

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