text double spacing

Involved Joined: Apr 06, 2008 Posts: 484

This isnt really 2.3 specific but Im sure Ive seen this on the forums somewhere.Anybody know why some text has like double spacing on your page.I thought I remembered seeing it on here and it was something to do with check_html function?

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 12:46 am

Hmm? What do you mean exactly?

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:20 am

for example....

But if you look at the source code it's fine?????

Code:




<tr style="background-color: rgb(122, 117, 111);">


<td>Curl Check Function</td>


<td>This php function checks if curl is enabled on the server, If it is enabled it will open the file you specify.</td>


<td><a href="code-2.html">View</a></td>


</tr>

Edit: Im sure Ive seen this somewhere before, Just cant remember what it was Sad

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:44 pm

What's double spacing here? I'm not following

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:36 pm

That's not double spacing.

In your table, the TD has no wraping. If the length of your characters exceed the automtically determined size of your <TD> cell, your browser wraps it out to the next line. To prevent it, go to your php code to define <TD> cell and put nowrap=\"nowrap\"

Good Luck.

Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 4:35 am

bluerace wrote:

and put nowrap=\"nowrap\"

Aah, blasphemy! Wink

Instead of using deprecated crap use something like; style="white-space: nowrap;" (or with a class in your CSS of course)

Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 4:57 am

nowrap is a deprecated tag, therefore I would use CSS.

Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 11:37 am

deprecation does not matter.
the matter is testy1 was figured out what was wrong in his td cell.

Also, in css, white space wrapping definition is, from time to time, not the idea that coders want. For instance, the first <TD> cell may nowar but neighboring <TD> cell should white-space wrapping.
Then, what happens?

simply telling "I prefer white-space is good " does not help his understanding.

The best answer to his question might be:

<td style='white-space: nowrap; ' />

anyways, I would like you not to say and use "new" one is better no matter what should work.

Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 8:02 am

Ideally, in my opinion, you layout the table with columns wide enough to hold your content and don't use either Smile

What if you have a div that is 500px wide with a 480px wide table inside? Using any type of nowrap or white-space in the table columns can enlarge the table and create other layout issues....

"deprecation does not matter."
Why show someone the old way of doing things? For instance, Asbestos is great for insulation, but not many will recommend it anymore Smile

Most webmasters do care about having valid code these days, or at least they should...

Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 9:15 am

I would have to agree, it does matter. Using current standards helps to ensure your website looks the same in most browsers, I say most because IE has a habit of mucking things up.

The point is that if you do things right in the first place it will save you time in the future. The RNTeam has spent a lot of time cleaning the Nuke code up and RN is now 99.9% XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant.

Anyway we are getting OffTopic

now.

Testy1, does any of the above work for you?

Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 3:56 pm

I will get back to this, I broke my hand so im out of action for a couple of weeks.