Generally PM's pages fit nicely in the available width of my browser's window. Occasionally, though, it doesn't, and an horizontal scrollbar is displayed. Personally, I find this very annoying: I don't really know what it's due to (yes, I know I may look into the page source and check for myself - just don't have time to), but even though it doesn't happen on a regular basis, I find it disappointing and I hope that there could be a mechanism to prevent such inconveniences at all.

For those reading this post now, it's happening in this very moment on Seekers of Perl Wisdom.

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

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Original title: 'Occasional PM's page widht problem'

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Re: Occasional PM's page width problem
by pelagic (Priest) on May 19, 2005 at 12:08 UTC
    blazar,
    thats because 458582 has a very long string in it's <code> section like this one:
    012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789

    Update
    tye is right: it's not the <code> tagging but the long string without whitespace that refuses to be wrapped properly.

    pelagic
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      has a very long string in it's <code>

      No, the problem was that it was not in <code> tags. And your long line isn't either, despite you having put a </code> on the end of it, else it wouldn't cause a width problem for people who have their settings set up correctly for their browsing environment. Note that a long string of non-whitespace characters doesn't get wrapped if there are no newlines inside of the <code> tags with it.

      - tye        

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      Oh, and in the meanwhile I see it has been fixed... ;-)
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Re: Occasional PM's page width problem
by jhourcle (Prior) on May 19, 2005 at 13:26 UTC

    see all but the first and last paragraphs of a note on a similar topic.

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Re: Occasional PM's page width problem
by calin (Deacon) on May 19, 2005 at 17:28 UTC

    btw, this also sometimes happens when you have the CPAN nodelet turned on, and there are long module names in there, which do not wrap to multipe lines.

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      It seems that all in all mine was quite a naive question. Well, even more naive than I had expected. Still, personally I find it so annoying that I wonder if it could be possible to "coerce" node's contents to avoid it, well perhaps upon a user's preference.
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        That's where node consideration comes into play.
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