BBCode - Insert Code [code] Not Operable in Mozilla Firefox

[Chris]

This could be very well be something related to a theme you have installed since that behaviour is controlled by CSS and could very well be old school vendor prefixed in your specific theme, a forum link would quickly reveal that. Basically with no break points in the content ( a space, hyphen, etc.) the normal behavior is to not break in the middle of a word so it will go on and on. On this forum, in the theme I have selected, the word-wrap: break-word; rule ensures that the long line of unbroken characters you posted eventually gets broken in the middle of a word if necessary.

Are you seeing that long unbroken line on this forum as well?




that was Chrome and this is Firefox

[Chris]

I opened it with Chrome and got the same unbroken line which was easily traced to this rule

.posts .post .message code {
display: block;
border: 1px solid #d7d7d7;
padding: 5px;
margin-left: 16px;
margin-right: 16px;
background: #efefef;
color: #000000;
font:;
white-space: pre;
}


Changing that from "pre" to "pre-wrap" immediately corrected the problem for me in Chrome. I'd say this was a rule added/modified specifically for that theme so look for it on the style sheet tab (CTRL+F brings up search)

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[Chris]

Since you are not a staff member of that forum and have no access to the admin panel then you can simply insert the necessary change as an inline style on your code tag, example:

[code style="white-space:pre-wrap"]insertcodehereinsertcodehereinsertcodehereinsertcodehereinsertcodehereinsertcodehereinsertcodehereinsertcodehere[/code]

and that will override the rule on that forum for that particular CSS property. The drawback to that approach is you have to add it every single time you insert a code element into a post but if you plead your case to the staff of that forum and they change it for you then it is a one-time change.

I have no idea what a "command style sheet" is, can you explain?

[Kami]

CSS is cascading style sheet, not command. and no you cannot; as Chris stated you must use inline styling to override the css put in place by the forum's administrator.

[Chris]

It is a question of style not content so deleting all content then putting the content back would have no effect.

This forum (more accurately a theme on this forum) has the style change I am advising you to make on that forum either through the admin panel (ask the staff to do it) or adding it inline as demonstrated above.