When posting something using the code tags then this effectively puts <pre> tags around the text, however because there is a <br> at the end of each line this code ends up double spaced. How can I change things to not print <br>'s when the text is within code tags?

*bump*

Actually, I would like to know how to get around this as well... I have extensive use of the [ CODE ] tag on my UBB and noticed this problem after doing an import.

-Chris

Mark, what version of vB are you on? I know John had changed this in version 1.1.3b3 - although there is one nesting error:

in global.php, around line 262 (in an unhacked one), it now says:

but it should be:
(i.e. nesting error - <normalfont> should come after the closing </blockquote> and not before).

In previous versions the blockquote and pre were in different order, which was less aesthetic and added a redundent space line. But in version 1.1.3b3 John changed it, so I'm not sure why you would have that space at all


(on edit: note that I replace [ /code ] with </code> in the above sections, because otherwise they would render as vB codes on this forum.)

[Edited by bira on 07-21-2000 at 09:57 PM]

bira:

Shouldn't the preceding:

also have the order of normalfont and blockquote reversed?

Parker

[Fixed up the code tags so it didn't parse -Ed]


[Edited by Ed Sullivan on 07-22-2000 at 07:18 PM]

nooo, no, no, no. You first close the normalfont tag and then open the blockquote "session". Then, you first close the blockquote "session" and reopen the normalfont tage.

HTML nesting as simple:

<a><b><c> </c></b></a>

or

<a></a><b></b> etc.

You can't have <a><b></a></b> (which is what you're suggesting).

Anyways, it's no biggie.

As for the additional <br>: that space comes from using <blockquote></blockquote> to begin with. It adds a line automatically, which is rendered by the forum as a <br>. If it bothers you THAT much, you can simply remove from the global.php the <blockquote></blockquote> and leave it as <pre></pre> only. This will display the code correctly, it just won't centralize it in the middle of the post.

The way that whole thing is written is screwy in that file.

I understanding the nesting bit but it has the </normalfont>
and <blockquote> together and the <normalfont> and </blockquote> together. The previous is with [ code ] and the later is with [ /code ].

The <normalfont> and <blockquote> should go with the [ code ] line and the </blockquote> and </normalquote> should go with the [ /code ] line.

Did I make that as muddy as possible? :)

Parker

No nono, I think you want to kill the <normalfont> before the <blockquote> so that the text is displayed in a <pre>-style (sorry, can't think of the word now). Then, just re open it for the rest of the message.

Parker, the first </font> is intended to close the normal message font, which is not suitable for prefixed (pre) text. Then, you start the "pre" procedure.

Let me try to illustrate it:

Hope that explains the html progress better.

This is still a problem, and what was said above does not fix it.

The problem lies here, I believe:

When in <pre>, we should not be adding br codes.

-ChadG