Re: Authentication Logging

On Jun 3, 2004, at 07:06, Brian Candler wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 05:13:13PM -0400, Joe H wrote:
>> 2.  I would like to be able to have line wrapping in the read message
>> section.  The way it is now, if a message is larger than my screen, it
>> just keeps going.  I have tried doing it with tables and such but it
>> doesn't work.  Has anyone come acrost a solution to this before?
>
> I'm not aware of one, but then I would have thought that the browser is
> responsible for wrapping the text to fit the space available. Have you 
> tried
> it with different browsers?
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian.
>

I believe he's talking about the text in plain text messages that's 
wrapped in PRE tags, which typically prevents line wrapping in 
well-behaved browsers.

As a solution, you can search for all the PRE tag references in the 
code (HTML and C files, since I don't recall which has those tags off 
the top of my head) and replace it with a different tag, such as TT. 
But expect some (other) weirdness in the display when you do, since I 
don't think the paragraph breaks themselves will even show up that way.

It won't be pretty, I don't think. -- Not to mention that if any of the 
PRE tags are in C files, you'll have to re-compile.

-jab


P.S. Alternatively, I think there may be a way in CSS to define it so 
that the PRE tags do not behave as PRE tags. -- Something about spacing 
perhaps?? No... more like... (Oh, bugger! I'll just look it up... 
*click click scroll click*)

Ah! [best-yoda-voice] "white-space" the property is. [/off-yoda-voice]

("I knew it was something about 'space'," he says with false 
confidence. LOL)

Set it to "normal" or probably better yet "pre-wrap" I think. Something 
like the rule below in your stylesheet might work for you.

pre { white-space: pre-wrap; }

Although, if pre-wrap setting doesn't do what I think it will, then 
your messages will be just as badly displayed as if you had replaced 
the tags after all... but this should be less work at least. HTH!