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

[James Card]

Oops! I overlooked the one thing which is probably most helpful in this 
situation: turn off Opera's support for HTML tables.

MENU: File | Preferences: Documents===========================

+-Presentation modes--------+  +-User fonts and colors-------+
|             Document User |  | Normal                [^][
]|
| Document CSS     [X]  [_] |  | Heading 1 <H1>        [ ]   |
| Doc fonts/colors [X]  [_] |  | Heading 2 <H2>        [ ]   |
| User CSS         [_]  [X] |  | Heading 3 <H3>        [ ]   |
| User fonts/colors[_]  [X] |  | Heading 4 <H4>        [ ]   |
| User links       [X]  [X] |  | Heading 5 <H5>        [ ]   |
| Tables           [ ]  [X] |  | Heading 6 <H6>        [ ]   |
| [X] Document mode default |  | Preformatted text<PRE>[ ]   |
+---------------------------+  | News article head     [ ]   |
                               | News article body     [_]   |
+-Frames--------------------+  | News group____________[v]   |
| [_] Enable frames         |  | [_] Invert active element   |
| [_] Enable inline frames  |  | Min font size(pixls)[  6]   |
| [_] Show active frame brdr|  | Background color    [___][
]|
+---------------------------+  +-----------------------------+

+-User links----------------+  +-User CSS--------------------+
|     [Link presentaion
]   |  | CSS file[______________] [
]|
+---------------------------+  +-----------------------------+

6/23/01 8:54:12 AM, James Card <jdcard at inreach.com> wrote:

>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
>
[SNIP]
>
>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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