[rt-users] Long history text widens pages

[Andrew Redman]

Hi -

We ran into this problem as well (with 3.6.1), and our solution (so far 
as I understand it... I'm not really a CSS guy) was to make pre tags 
scroll. It results in a scroll bar at the bottom of whatever segment 
would have caused the page to over widen. We added this to the rt css:

pre
{
    padding:2px;
    overflow:auto;
}

I know it works in Opera and Firefox, and I think the guy that actually 
wrote that bit tested it for all the browsers he could access easily, 
but I can't guarantee that. In any case its better than mutilating words 
to wrap.

 - Andrew Redman
   ITG Help Desk
   Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, UCSB

Stephen Turner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This must have come up before, but I can't find anything anywhere in
> archives or on the wiki...
>
> A long unbroken string of text (often a URL) in a history entry pushes the
> page way out to the right so that you have to scroll to the right to find
> Submit buttons etc. I've tried various fixes but found nothing that will
> work in all the browser/OS combinations we support.
>
> Has anyone else dealt with this problem and come up with an elegant
> solution?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Stephen Turner
> Senior Programmer/Analyst - Client Support Services
> MIT Information Services and Technology (IS&T)
>  
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