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Mar 28.2004

Hello all.. I was wondering how to get some line breaks in on <pre>’s. I haven’t been able to get them to stay where I want them to. If I put overflow: hidden; half of the text is gona, if i use overflow: visible; then their text stretches into no man’s land, if I use overflow: auto; I get nasty scroll bars. Widths haven’t helped either. Does anyone know what to do, or know of a good, relevant article? And, for reference, one of my main preformatted page with issues: [url]http://projep.t35.com?03=chat[/url]

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@Paul_JrMar 28.2004 — [i]Originally posted by omega [/i]

[B]Hello all.. I was wondering how to get some line breaks in on <pre>'s.[/B][/QUOTE]
Hit the "Enter" key.
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@Ben_RogersauthorMar 28.2004 — Ha, ha. You know what I mean, so that if a line can't fit, it doesn't stretch, it goes into the next line.
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@Paul_JrMar 28.2004 — I'm not sure you can, without manually inserting the line break...
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@Ben_RogersauthorMar 28.2004 — Really? That sucks... it seems there has to be some way.. I know that I could do it with PHP or JS, but that kind of kills the CSS styled ideal.... not to mention it'd be very inconvenient, installing a script for every page with <pre>formatted text... ?
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@Paul_JrMar 28.2004 — I don't know for sure, so don't quote me on it.
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@Ben_RogersauthorMar 29.2004 — [i]Originally posted by Paul Jr [/i]

[B]on it. [/B][/QUOTE] woot. anyways, if anyone else knows how to get them to act normal...,
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@ray326Mar 29.2004 — [i]Originally posted by omega [/i]

[B]woot. anyways, if anyone else knows how to get them to act normal..., [/B][/QUOTE]
Don't use <pre> if you want them to "act normal". <pre> is by definition "not normal."
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@SamMar 29.2004 — but with a little server side work, you could easily insert newlines every x# of characters...
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@Ben_RogersauthorMar 29.2004 — So, are you saying there's absolutely no CSS solution? Don't get into scripting now...
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@SamMar 29.2004 — I was browsing the property index, and found nothing that looks like it would do the trick.
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