Broken Yoghurt?
The estimable MatGB writes, regarding the Chicken Yoghurt template…
On post pages, the comments and text of entries flows all across the screen, so you can’t read things, and the sidebar takes priority so I can’t even highlight stuff.
He’s using Firefox 1.5.0 on Windows XP. I use the same but everything looks fine to me. Would anybody else seeing anything strange (or not) with the site layout please shout out in the comments. Cheers.
Posted on February 25th, 2006 at 10:25 am
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Looks fine to me in Firefox 1.5.0.1 in Mac OS 10.3.9
works fine for me using flock(Firefox derivative) and Safari on the Mac will now try it on PC Bowsers
It looks OK to me on Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1 on Windows 2000.
Fine on 1.5.0.1/XP
I got the same effect last night. From the front page (which displays correctly), when I open the link to the Napolean-Clarke law, the formatting goes awry.
http://chickyog.blogspot.com/2006/02/murphys-law_22.html#c114080022532637597
This is with the official Firefox 1.5.0.1 version running on Ubuntu Linux.
Prescott
works fine in Flock and IE(7 Beta 2) on PC
I get the buggered up thing too.
Firefox 1.5.0.1 / windy XP
Oh yeah I get the same problems….Story and comment text goes across the screen and under the links and stuff on the right… I’ve just never noticed before cos i read from rss!
I had the same thing yesterday. It’s fine now.
I’m on Firefox 1.5/XP.
Same problem with me as well.
I get that problem as well: Firefox 1.0.7 on Win XP.
I think it’s possibly linked to screen resolution, not 100% sure; what settings are people on?
I have problems on 1024, if people not having problems are on bigger than that then that would explain it.
I’m getting it now - wasn’t with the old template. Firefox 1.0.6, Win XP, 1162×864 resolution.
Then again, apparently my place is utterly screwed in IE, with sidebars hanging over the main text all over the shop as well. If you work out how to fix it, let me know, eh?
I’m pretty certain it only happens when someone posts a very long link, and the containing [div] exapnds to accomodate it all on one line, as in the comments here.
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Yep, I can see it now. I wasn’t looking at the page with the long link before. IE wraps it but Firefox doesn’t. Arse.
Anybody know a fix?
Definitely fluffed here too - FF 1.0.7 on Linux. Lines in comments spread over the text to the right, if that’s what everyone else is seeing.
As far as a fix is concerned, it’s not so much the link as the fact that it is a continuous string of text with any spaces. It looks like the answer is no.
The only answer I can think of is not to use the actual url (if a very long) as the link text, instead using a meaningful work or phrase, so the actual url is only in the opening [a] tag.
Use tinyurl.com?
Don’t think it’s the links which are causing the problem. Not for me anyway on Firefox 1.5.0.1 and XP (I tried 1024 x 768 and 1280 x 1024 res and the problem shows up in both). The standard text in the main post is running into the excellent Judge Dredd image. Straight text comments are running into the sidebar too.
No idea why though, I’m afraid.
It’s because the body text of the original post and all the comments are in a containing [table] - which as far as I can see doesn’t actually serve any structural or layout purpose. Any long link stretches the width of this container, so that the width of all lines is affected.
Without the [table] only the long line or string itself would overflow the right border.
I’ve put a simple example on my site.
As the suggestor of a nugget idea, it looks fine to me.
Justin, I preferred the last nugget format but like the multi-nugget post.
Tested and fine on Mac OS 10.4.5 on the following browsers: Safari, Firefox, Opera, Camino, Seamonkey, Mozilla and Netscape.
Inevitably it’s buggered on IE 5.2, but I shouldn’t worry about that…
DK
Oh, fine in Flock too…
DK
Pete’s on the money with his diagnosis. The use of the table is a lazy, ugly bodge to facilitate the Chicken Nugget doohicky. It’s controlled via a CSS element that I’ve never got right and the table is to keep everything in its place.
The use of the long link in the comment in question caught out the bodge. I need to have another look at it. Me own fault for endless tinkering while avoiding work.
Big thanks to everybody who checked in. Much appreciated.
Another bodge: I’ve deleted and reposted the comments with the long links.
Not ideal but it’ll have to do for the time being…
It is usually fine unless someone posts a long link (I think this has been mentioned) which stretches it all, in this case it may be the link in the post by “Anonymous”.