Fixing the formating of this post

harvey1 · Post by **harvey1** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 9:36 am

What is wrong with the formatting for this post? Can it be corrected?

theleos6 · Post by **theleos6** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 9:42 am

The link that meeble posted made the page wide like that. I edited my post and hit enter after each line to make it more 'normal'.

McCulloch · Post by **McCulloch** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:11 am

Yes it can be corrected. I have sent a PM to meeble suggesting that he correct his post. The problem is that he pasted in a naked mile wide url. Since urls do not have any spaces in them, the page cannot be rendered with any automatic line breaks. This is easily solved by using the BBCode for URLs like this:
[url=http://www.milewideaddress.com/longpage ... ngerstring]link to page[/url]
It the BBCode is not disabled in the post, the above post looks reasonably good. I have disabled BBCodes in this post for illustrative purposes. In order to protect freedom of expression, we moderators are hesitant to edit anyone's post, except in the case of rule violation.

harvey1 · Post by **harvey1** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:28 am

McCulloch wrote:Yes it can be corrected. I have sent a PM to meeble suggesting that he correct his post.

If meeble doesn't respond in a day or so, then why don't we open a new thread? I can't read the posts, and I'm sure others will have trouble too.

McCulloch · Post by **McCulloch** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:18 am

McCulloch wrote:Yes it can be corrected. I have sent a PM to meeble suggesting that he correct his post.

harvey1 wrote:If meeble doesn't respond in a day or so, then why don't we open a new thread? I can't read the posts, and I'm sure others will have trouble too.

Or we could just a a few
short posts and the thread
will resume with the proper
width on the next page.