in reply to Those 'wide load' posts

It wouldn't matter if you put it in a 24 point red blinking typeface marquee and played a wave file. People would still ignore it.

The problem is more with how your browser renders the results, rather than any sin on the part of a naive user. I believe the following CSS will fix the problem:

.code { overflow: auto; }
.pre { overflow: auto; }

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(update: not quite correct (IANACSSM), see the solution below) And then you'll never have a wide screen again.

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Re^2: Those 'wide load' posts (code)
by tye (Sage) on Oct 15, 2007 at 21:21 UTC 
    .code { overflow: auto; }

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    PerlMonks emits no <code> tags so I think that that bit of CSS does nothing here.

    I hope someone can do the footwork to validate the other half so we can just add it to the PerlMonks standard CSS, if it works well enough.

    - tye        

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      "I hope someone can do the footwork to validate the other half.."
      hmm, unless I'm doing something wrong, I'd have to say that it doesn't seem to work. I've added .pre { overflow: auto; } to my Onsite CSS Markup under Display Settings, and then added some extra-wide text contained in <pre> tags to my pad - but it doesn't autowrap.
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        .pre { overflow: auto; }

        Note that this sets style for the class "pre", not the element.

        You probably want pre { overflow: auto; }. Dunno what browsers support it though.

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      That's working on blocks with a class of 'code', and it seems the code tags get output as pre blocks with that class.
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        Yes, there were either two errors in the original (thinking that <code> tags get output and that ".X" selects <X> tags) or just one typo (writing ".pre" instead of "pre"). Since the node was about <pre> tags, I just assumed the former and didn't go look up CSS selector syntax.

        To collapse the overlapping corrections from multiple replies, you'd want selectors of ".code" (class="code") and "pre" (<pre>) to get both types of blocks.

        and it seems the code tags get output as pre blocks with that class

        Sure, it seems that way to you. :) But PerlMonks <code> blocks are not output as <pre> blocks for me (because I mostly browse PerlMonks with a browser that has supported the standard soft hyphen (&shy;) for years, unlike FireFox, and so I can use "auto code wrap"). So it is better to use ".code" for selecting code blocks than "pre" (especially since the next major release of FireFox will finally support &shy; properly and "auto code wrap" rocks compared to fixed-width code wrapping so many will likely enable it.

        - tye        

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