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Originally Posted by Princeton

I dont' remember exactly why we went the direction we did but it may have to do with...
<pre> 100% within a <table> doesn't work as you may expect

without writing a book here's a few examples of what I mean...
http://www.atmaweapon.org/tables.html

Liquid table, liquid pre
Fixed table, liquid pre

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Width size was 500px I changed it to 650px.
650px because of the floated boxes in the mod/article postbit (fixed width)

I tried out a fix with firebug at that time. I think it was set width to ~80% which worked pretty nicely for both styles.

Instead of fixed value, setting a % value will help a lot. Try switching to fixed table, find out the maximum % value that doesn't make it overlap.