[Forum] Prevent Code Tags from Wrapping Long-Lines

[kirupa]

Hi everyone
I have an issue that cropped up after upgrading to vB 4 from vB 3.8. Long lines of code now wrap instead of just presenting me with horizontal scrollbars. You can see an example here.

Does anybody know how to prevent the wrapping and go back to the older behavior?

Thanks,
Kirupa

[Steve Machol]

Can you be more specific? I don't see that in your link.

[kirupa]

Hi Steve,
I've posted screenshots of what the code snippets look like in the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, and IE:

Chrome




IE



Firefox



Notice that the text is inconsistently wrapping.

Thanks,
Kirupa

[Steve Machol]

To troubleshoot this, first reupload all the original vB non-image files (except install.php). Make sure you upload these in ASCII format and overwrite the ones on the server. Also be sure to upload the admincp files to whichever directory you have set in your config.php file. Then run 'Suspect File Versions' in Diagnostics to make sure you have all the original files for your version and that none show 'File does not contain expected contents':

Admin CP -> Maintenance -> Diagnostics -> Suspect File Versions

[Note: In some cases you may also need to remove any of the listed .xml files in the includes/xml directory.]

Next, disable all products (except vB Blog, vB CMS and Skimlinks if you have them.)

Admin CP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Disable

Then manually uncheck all plugins that are not for 'vBulletin Blog' and vBulletin CMS' here:

Admin CP -> Plugins & Products -> Plugin Manager

You must do BOTH of those steps in order to disable all non vBulletin Modifications.

Then if you still have this problem, create a new style and choose no parent style. This will force it to use the default templates. Finally empty your browser cache, close all browser windows then try again. Make sure you change to the new style and view your forums with it.

Do you have the same problem?

[kirupa]

Hi Steve,
Sorry for the delay in getting back on this. I've tried all of your suggestions, and none of them worked. As a final resort, I created a test thread on the vBulletin Forums itself: https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/show...85#post2190685 (you may need to resize the browserto get the scrollbars to appear)

The text wraps in weird combinations in all of the browsers.

Thanks,
Kirupa

[Steve Machol]

Thanks. I consider that a bug. The PHP code should not wrap. Please report this in the vB4 Bug Tracker here:

http://tracker.vbulletin.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa

[setishock]

A link to your forum sure would be nice. I have an idea of what it is but want to take a look at the enviroment the code block is sitting in before I speak.

[kirupa]

setishock - I posted the link in the first post, but the link isn't noticeable :P Here is an updated link: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthre...=1#post2620413

[Andy]

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[setishock]

It's NOT a bug! You have 2 ads parked on the right side of the forum and that's chewing up a lot of real estate. That in turn is added to the fact your forum is sooooooooooooooooooooo narrow the box can not flair out like it's supposed to. Either dump the ads or make the forum a lot wider than you have it now.
@Andy I take it you saw what I did or you having one of those days too?

[Steve Machol]

It's NOT a bug! You have 2 ads parked on the right side of the forum and that's chewing up a lot of real estate.

Even so, the PHP code should not have wrapped. It should have worked just like the Code function in that regard.

[kirupa]

setishock - I made a minor CSS tweak on my forums that fixes it only in Firefox but repros in Chrome and IE. Anyway, you can see the other URL I posted of this issue repro'ing in the forums here as well: https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/show...85#post2190685