Is forcing wrapping needed at all? You can't even know the font size I use. Inserting spaces, even when at better offsets, will always be a suboptimal and lossy solution.

You can save yourself the trouble by putting each chatterbox line in a <div> that has, via CSS, overflow set to auto. Then every line that has a word in it that cannot be wrapped by the browser gets its own nice horizontal scrollbar, but only for the part that needs it. There already are <span> tags now (WHY? span+br is a red flag! Oh, and <span class="chat"><span class="chatfrom_221638"> should probably just be <span class="chat chatfrom_221638">), and those can be made <div>s, so it'll actually save some bandwidth ;)

DIV.chat { overflow: auto; } is all it takes, and lets you get rid of the ugly space insertion hacks of dozens of lines. Off-site example (that will be removed soon) can be found at http://juerd.nl/pmchattertest.html.

Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }

In reply to Re: A call to keyboards: Better chatterbox wrapping by Juerd
in thread A call to keyboards: Better chatterbox wrapping by demerphq

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