I'm curious, did anything change with the Monestary's web pages formatting since yesterday?

Up until today, each page at the Monestary displayed just fine, in their respective entireity (I probably misspelled that, sorry). But now I just get a cropped version if I don't significantly expand the right boundry of the display window.

I've never had this happen before. I never really paid much attention, but I think I could set the left/right window bounderies to whatever I wanted and the page displayed would then word-wrap sufficiently to allow all of the various display areas to show in the window.

Now when I move the left/right window bounderies inwards, it just crops out *all* materail on the right side of the display (e.g., it now doesn't even display the chatterbox, and other areas unless I significantly increase the right window boundry.

It is probably something that I did; but I don't know what as I don't remember doing anything (like editing or changing any setting either in my Monestary setup of my Microsoft Windows XP environment).

Update: Well, now it seems to be working with the word-wrapping when I resize the window...but now I don't have any of the right-hand areas (e.g., chatterbox, leftovers, etc.) at all. Oh, well. It keeps me on my toes...so to speak. ;-)

Update 2: Arghhh! It's happening again! For the last several days everything was fine; now, again, I cannot see the side-bar nodelets. I'm going to see if I can use Argel's suggestion.

ack Albuquerque, NM
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Re: Curious if Something Changed in Monastery's Page Displays (FAQ)
by tye (Sage) on Jun 24, 2009 at 23:01 UTC
Re: Curious if Something Changed in Monastery's Page Displays
by VinsWorldcom (Prior) on Jun 24, 2009 at 18:09 UTC
    I've seen this before when a user posts a questions and uses <pre> tags instead of <code> tags to format code blocks.

    I'm seeing the pages display fine today so perhaps that's not the issue for you. You mention Windows so I'm assuming IE - look under your "View" menu at the "Text Size", "Encoding" and "Style" menu items. I'm set to "Medium", "Western European" and "Default" respectively.

      I just tried the suggestion and all of my settings (except "Style" which, for some reason, I didn't find in my "View" drop-down menu) were the same as yours. So unless the "Style" got messed up (I'm not sure where to find it on my IE_version_7 menus) then I guess that wasn't it. But, again, thanks for offering the help. I really appreciate it.

      ack Albuquerque, NM

      Thanks so much. I'll check it out. I probably inadvertantly did something (probably something stupid) and just didn't realize it. Your suggestion sounds promising. Again, thanks so much.

      ack Albuquerque, NM
Re: Curious if Something Changed in Monastery's Page Displays
by Argel (Prior) on Jun 26, 2009 at 20:41 UTC
    You may also find Nodelets on the left? of interest. With the nodelets on the left <pre> can't force them off screen.

    Elda Taluta; Sarks Sark; Ark Arks

      Wow! That's way cool. I didn't know I could do that.

      Unfortunately, doing that solved the nodelet problem...but then resulted in not being able to read the various postings...can't make my window large enough.

      But thanks so much for the suggestion...it opened up a whole new set of possibilities. I really appreciate it.

      ack Albuquerque, NM