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Re: line breaks in my messages, why does this happen ?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:14:12 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Ray Sanders writes:
> > When I enter a message thru the web interface, then click preview, the raw
> > text (in the edit window) comes back with hard line breaks at the end of
> > each line. Why does this happen ?
>
> Because the form says
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> <TEXTAREA NAME="Body" COLS=79 ROWS=20 MAXLENGTH=65000 WRAP=HARD>
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> It's the WRAP=HARD part that asks for the hard line breaks.
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> > This also caused a URL I put in to line break. You can see this at...
> > <http://news.lugnet.com/market/theory/?n=1679>
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong?
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> No, but I think your web browser is. With other browsers, WRAP=HARD only
> applies at word breaks (i.e. spaces), meaning that really big long words
> more than 79-80 columns -- like URLs, for example -- shouldn't be broken
> when you browser sends the text. OTOH, maybe the browsers that work are the
> ones that are broken.
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> > One possible solution to the URL problem would be
> > if the edit area was wider (although I suspect that this could break people
> > on a screen smaller than 17").
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> What does Netscape 4.6 or 4.7 or MSIE 5.x on the Mac do? I don't think it's
> supposed to be breaking URLs onto two lines without your permission. And it's
> not something the server does.
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> --Todd
Doesn't the server do it because you have told it WRAP=HARD. I think I have
always had this problem posting URLs from the Web interface even before you
did your preview posting change. I post about 95% through the web interface.
Here is a web-interface post from June where the line break was automatically
entered at the ? in the URL <http://news.lugnet.com/market/auction/?n=6089>
This post was broken at the 79th character and was sent in through email
<http://news.lugnet.com/market/auction/?n=6123>
Here is a test post I just did through the web-intterface showing broken URLs.
<http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/test/?n=2388>
I use IE5.x for my browser and Outlook 2000 for mail.
BEN GATRELLE
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