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Dec 01, 2022

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Investigating

Review CSS for code snippets

Hi DevCentral Team,

the usable width of DevCentral content is sometimes very limited. Especially if you enable "Threaded format" (default mode) and post an iRule snipped far deep into a conversation, the <PRE> formated content will become hard to read. Thanks to annoying word-wraps...

TBH... i dont know a single developer which is turning on "word wrap" just to read the code better on very small monitors. Word wrap makes it basically just worse, but miliage may vary for 0,0001% of the human being... 😉

I would like to propose a CSS change to make it easier to read code snippets here on DevCentral.

pre code {
    white-space: pre ;
    overflow-x: scroll ;
}

Cheers, Kai

5 Comments

LiefZimmerman
Admin
Dec 02, 2022
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hmmmm - very interesting. the CSS we have now is...complex (and changing) but...this may just be doable.
Will see what I can do.
Kai_Wilke
MVP
Dec 02, 2022
Drop it somewhere in the CSS and add a !important to it... 😉

On my Laptop i'm using a StyleBot plug-in to overwrite DevCentrals CSS as needed.

But on my phone its almost impossible to read any code snippets. The word wrap makes it almost impossible...

Cheers, Kai
LiefZimmerman
Admin
Dec 02, 2022
cool - hopefully it is as easy as it *ought to be*.

Thanks,
Lief
Kai_Wilke
MVP
Dec 21, 2022
Hi Lief,

got a nice x-mas gift...

Now I can read iRule code from my iPhone 😬

Many thanks and Cheers, Kai
LiefZimmerman
Admin
Dec 27, 2022
JRahm is, in your case then, Santa. 🎅🎅
(Jason spent a BUNCH of time over the past few weeks scripting and manually fixing several hundred blargged code postings across the site. Despite efforts - there are still some lurkers. If you find another send it our way.)

Cheers,
Lief