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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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Re^4: Those 'wide load' posts (code)
by Sidhekin (Priest) on Oct 15, 2007 at 22:49 UTC

    .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.

    print "Just another Perl ${\(trickster and hacker)},"
    The Sidhekin proves Sidhe did it!

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      Oh, duh.
      Well it's obvious how much I know about CSS, eh? ;)
      Yes, removing the leading period does the trick.
      In my current browser (Firefox 2.0.0.7), I now get a neat horizontal scrollbar (contained within the page) when viewing my pad.
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        IE7 appears to ignore pre { overflow: auto; } (which doesn't surprise me much but a quick google search before I posted the first response didn't turn up any information on how widely this is supported like I had hoped). FireFox 2.0.0.7 just wrapped everything so I had to go re-find userContent.css and remove pre { white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; } from it (and then restart FireFox which took two tries, bleh). (And that shows another route to go for those more nostalgic than forward-looking.)

        So, it is an improvement (though I'm sure some will dislike it and need to override it with their own CSS) but not a perfect fix either. Adding to it an item for what PerlMonk <code> tags emit would help alleviate the problem of FireFox still not supporting soft hyphens.

        There is also the possibility of filtering PRE tags similar to how PM filters CODE tags, a long-standing to-do item...

        - tye        

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