Some messages wider than screen

[Barry Katcher]

Most of the topics on the message board are the width of the screen, but some are much wider and I have to use the scroll bar to scroll right and left to see the whole message. Worse, when I print, even in landscape, the right side of the message is chopped off. Is this because the original poster inadvertantly did something? Or am I doing something wrong? Or a bug?

 

[Mark O'Brien]

My guess is that they used the "pre" tags for code and don't know the "trick".

e.g.

<pre>
Public Sub Main()
MsgBox "This is a test"
End Sub
</pre>

tends to screw up the rest of the text in the post. i.e. sends it off the screen. The "trick" is to put the closing tag on the same line as the last line of code i.e.:

<pre>
Public Sub Main()
MsgBox "This is a test"
End Sub</pre>

this is my guess as to what you're seeing.

HTH (aka Mark)

 

[Barry Katcher]

Sorry, Mark, I have no idea what this "<pre>" stuff is, is it something the sender is inputting?

Incidentally, I did find an end-run around the problem; I copied the message to the clipboard and pasted it into Word. It comes out screen-width and prints o.k.

 

[Mark O'Brien]

The "<pre>" stuff is the HTML tags people use to make their VBA code examples PREserve the original spacing to make it more readable. The posts in this thread are now going off othe screen as evidenced by the fact that you have inadvertently opened a "<pre>" tag without closing it. I have disabled HTML on my posts so that you can actually see the "<pre>" tags that I'm talking about.

 

[Von Pookie]

Mark is right about why it is going off of the screen, but as for the printing...

Internet Explorer is notorious for that problem. I usually just copy/paste the text into Word or some other program then print it out that way.

_________________<font color="#3399FF" size="3">Kristy</font></PRE>
This message was edited by Von Pookie on 2002-12-08 20:56

 

[Barry Katcher]

Thanks, Mark & VonP. The coy/paste into Word works for me, too.