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Re: Post preview screen behaving strangely?
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:36:12 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Rene Hoffmeister wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > Since I switched to Firefox 1.0 the other day I've noticed that when I preview a
> > post, the preview text box is a lot narrower than the entry box, casuing the
> > preview to be wrapped before the end of each line. And it only seems to happen
> > when I'm replying to another post. Messages still post OK, but the preview
> > layout is totally different than what eventually gets posted.
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> > I guess this is a browser issue, as IE still seems to display it correctly. So I
> > dunno how easy it is to look into.
> >
> > ROSCO
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> In Firefox 1.5 this doesn't happen. I've tried with Firefox 1.0 and was able to
> reproduce the mistake. Well, since the whole preview box is as wide as the
> subject line, I thought of a missing WIDTH-attribute in one of the TABLE- or
> TD-tags (whole box is nested tables). Though the attribute is optional, missing
> ones can cause such mistakes, especially if there are nearly all of them are
> missing all over the tables. But it wasn't the source of error :-(
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> Weird: By clicking the "refresh"-button, the preview is first working then again
> not, with a chance of 50:50 to get the correct preview. Even more weird:
> Comparing the source code of a wrong display with the source code of a correct
> one, shows EXACTLY the same page reproduction.
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> Also: As soon as changing the subject text by at least 1 character, the preview
> is also working correctly.
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> I'm still pretty sure it has something to do with cell- or table-width, in
> combination with a tiny FireFox bug, provoked by surrounding code. But I quit on
> this by now, since with the current HTML structure, this would be trial and
> error over different mods for hours AND the doubtful template is used for all
> views of messages, not only the preview box. So correcting it could cause errors
> at other places or with another browser.
Wow! Thanks for looking into this Rene, but I think you made the right decision
- it has worked fine since I upgraded to 1.5 some time ago, and I forgot to
revisit this thread. Anyone still using 1.0 deserves to have some weird
behaviour ;)
ROSCO
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| (...) In Firefox 1.5 this doesn't happen. I've tried with Firefox 1.0 and was able to reproduce the mistake. Well, since the whole preview box is as wide as the subject line, I thought of a missing WIDTH-attribute in one of the TABLE- or TD-tags (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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