[Opera-users] Re; Display with lines too long

[James Card]

6/23/01 7:18:24 AM, Jay Hamilton <soundand at drizzle.com> wrote:

>I'm using Opera 5.11 and one site http://forums.syntrillium.com/ [SNIP]
>always shows lines of text that I must scroll back and forth to read.  
>I've looked in Preferences to see if there is an item that I can choose 
>to cause the words to wrap to screen but don't recognize anything.  
>Thank you, I'm sure this is something simple-j

Not much you can do here, the problem is a result of the long lines 
required to accomodate the URL's included in their text. The word-wrap 
algorithm doesn't find any spaces or hyphens in the URL so it handles it 
as one really long word. Since they didn't specify a width for the table 
cell (which is actually a Good Thing!) that contains the text, Opera 
resizes the table to accomodate the size of its content (which is WHY it 
is a Good Thing). Of course, you already know the result: the table 
width is wider than your screen window and all the other text then is 
formatted to match the width of the table, rather than the width of your 
window.

What can you do about it? You may be able to fix it by writing a custom 
user stylesheet and switching Opera to user mode. You could ask their 
webmaster to rewrite their code to solve the problem (an unlikely 
solution). You can adjust your Windows display settings to a higher 
screen resolution and/or adjust Opera's zoom level to get more of the 
display on-screen at a time -- of course, this produces a smaller 
apparent text size that many people really don't like. You can use CTRL-
PageDown and CTRL-PageUp to scroll horizontally a page (actually, a 
window-width) at a time.

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