Code tags are described in a footnote within Perl Monks Approved HTML tags as follows:

2<code> and <c>, used for displaying code/data, are not true HTML tags, but are interpreted by the PerlMonks engine. They inhibit the normal interpretation of enclosed HTML special characters like <, >, &, [, and ]. Any newlines in the enclosed code will be rendered such that long lines wrap....

However, this is not always the case. Looking at the recent thread Regex string trimming help, I noticed that the display was significantly wider than my (wide!) monitor, because the first block of code in the OP was not wrapping (whereas the same code in tybalt89’s reply was wrapping as expected). As a janitor I was able to fix this by putting the opening and closing <code> tags in the first code block of the OP onto separate lines. So the description in Perl Monks Approved HTML tags is not true for inline code.

Is this a bug, or the intended behaviour? I suspect it’s the latter. In which case, should the explanation in Perl Monks Approved HTML tags (and perhaps also in Markup in the Monastery) be changed to reflect the fact that line wrapping occurs only when the code tags are separated from the enclosed text by line breaks, but not when they are inlined?

Although the problem of over-wide nodes arising from <code>-tagged lines that don’t wrap is not overly common, I do think it arises often enough to make this an issue worth addressing.

Thanks,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Inline code tags don't line-wrap by Athanasius

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