forum tag display

alexuw · September 19, 2009

In forum posts, in text tagged <code> long lines get cut off (at least on my display) as here:

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/8784/howto-enable-additional-tinymce-note-editor-functionality/

You can still highlight a line and copy and paste, but it'd be nice to see the whole line.

Actually I'm not sure how <code> is supposed to be displayed. If a fixed width then probably I should format that post differently.

dstillman · September 19, 2009

<code> is supposed to be monospaced. We could make the font size a bit smaller, but most of the lines would still get cut off. We could also turn on word-wrap: break-word; to soft-break the long lines, but I think that would be more confusing.

I don't think this is too big a deal, though—anyone who's going to be unzipping .jar files and editing Zotero code files can probably figure out how to copy and paste the long lines.

Rintze · September 20, 2009

There seems to be a nice syntax highlighter plugin for Vanilla Forums: http://vanillaforums.org/addon/411/SyntaxHighlighter

In action:
http://www.cssforums.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=13&page=1#Item_0