the blue on the top of the page

I don't know if any on has ever noticed, but when there is a post that has somthing like (vb)code in it, the top of the form (the blue) stops when you scrool left.

here is a link to a test post:
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hreadid=296891

Yea thats because if anyone else posts in the thread their posts won't be as wide as your post. This means all the posts can be viewed without scrolling sideways but the ones using the code tags is still able to be as wide as they need ;).

don't you think the Blue should continue at the top of the page?

Well in this post you see I've added some Code tags and you wouldn't expect the blue bar at the top of the first post to be the width of my post do you?

Code:

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To open a door you must first approach it, then turn the handle and push. Some doors require you to push them though. Cation is advised if you are attempting this at high velocitys as the response time of DoorV1.1 is not very fast

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Its set up basically to that if there is a freak post that is over-wide then it doesn't effect the rest of the posts width. I think it used to a while back because its really annoying when one wide post makes all the other posts in the thread hard to read because you need to scroll sideways to read them.

I like it as it is....hate long code to make me scrool in two direction...

the only reason i put this post here is because i think it makes the page look bad

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Originally posted by Electroman
Well in this post you see I've added some Code tags and you wouldn't expect the blue bar at the top of the first post to be the width of my post do you?

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I think you two are talking about different things. You're talking about the blue bar at the top of the first post, while he's talkinga bout the header (where the ads and VB Wire News are).

At least I think that's what he's talking about.

Ohhh....:D...could still not care less tho'..:D

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Posted by The Hobo
I think you two are talking about different things. You're talking about the blue bar at the top of the first post, while he's talkinga bout the header (where the ads and VB Wire News are).

At least I think that's what he's talking about.

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Well I suppose even if he is talking about the bar with the ads on then it won't make sense to make it any wider. Mainly because the Ad in the top right corner wouldn't be displayed on the screen in that situation and I don't think the people paying for the ads would like that much ;).

i never said to put any thing at the very right of the page, when a person puts long code in, what i said is make the blue bar continue accross the page to the end. insted of stop where the default page size is.

Adjusting the header area could result in the entire page being adjusted to the width of the widest post. While this would be nicer in the sense that it would make the page proportionally accurate, it would mean that you would have to scroll right on more posts and such.

An alternative solution would be to force the pre/code tags to wrap at the width of the page. Another option is to place code into scrolling text windows so that none of the posts are forced to the right.

There are a lot of options. When and if this forum is upgraded to 3.0 or later, the code will be put into scrolling text boxes which resolves the issue.

Brad