Why are code blocks so narrow?

[danb35]

A recent thread with a SMART error posted the SMART output (which is good), in code tags (which is also good), but the code block in the post was so narrow as to make it nearly impossible to read:

Since code blocks don't wrap (which is good), it'd be nice if 25+% of the width wasn't wasted.

 

[Ericloewe]

I think it's actually the combination of CODE blocks and spoilers. That's been a bit of a nuisance, but it was considered to be a low-priority issue since it doesn't happen that often.

 

[danb35]

Ah. Where did the idea come from for users to hide their information behind spoiler tags, anyway?

 

[fracai]

It's so a huge code block (like a long log dump) doesn't make the page unmanageable if you've already read through the code.

 

[Ericloewe]

CODE blocks already do that. They have an independent scrolling domain

 

[wblock]

Maybe we should just disable spoiler tags, if that's possible.

 

[Ericloewe]

It's probably doable, but it breaks some legitimately useful functionality (it's useful in signatures, to some extent).

 

[cobrakiller58]

I do like the spoiler tag personally would be sad to see it go, it's rare that this comes up AFAIK I feel like it could probably be ignored plus even with the wasted space it doesn't appear to me to be difficult to read.

 

[Jailer]

(it's useful in signatures, to some extent).

Agreed.

 

[danb35]

even with the wasted space it doesn't appear to me to be difficult to read.

...except that the right half of each line is hidden, so you have to scroll from side to side. For each line. Yes, that's very difficult to read.

 

[cobrakiller58]

What resolution is your display at I was just looking at another nested code block I did and it displays clearly on my screen but I'm at 1920x1080 currently

Edit:wow even at 1440x900 I had a scroll bar.....

 

[danb35]

even at 1440x900

...which is what I was using on that machine. It's a 15" laptop, so it doesn't have tons of screen space, but it's enough for most purposes. But when the right third of the window is taken up by ads, and the left 20% by user avatars, and 25% of the remaining width isn't used...

 

[fracai]

It looks like this could be fixed by changing the CSS.
There's a rule for ".bbCodeSpoilerText" that puts the right margin at 166px. If that were deleted or lowered the spoiler section would extend all the way to the edge of the post box.

 

[Ericloewe]

@JoshDW19, I remember this came up some time ago, but don't remember exactly what frustrated our intentions back then.

 

[Tigersharke]

I work on theme Ganz großes Kino, so when I take some free time to look at it, I ought to be able to fix the situation for that family of themes. The other themes, especially the 'official' one, could be adapted once I had a useful solution in my own. If and when any effort is made on either, I will mention it in a future post. BTW, it has been a while since I looked at the themes so it may take a bit of time simply to re-orient myself.