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Richard Karpinski

30 Oct 2004 30 Oct '04

6:05 p.m.

Some pages in my wiki are loaded from preexisting files which include indented text. Putting such text in dashed boxes messes up the document. I think I could use <pre> tags but I believe that would prevent the text from reformatting to fit smaller or larger windows, Is there another way to avoid the boxing? Dick

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Jack Lutz

30 Oct 30 Oct

6:25 p.m.

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I'm not very knowledgeable on MediaWiki, but seems to me that's just a CSS attribute. Look in your stylesheet and find lines with "border" or "dashed", like this: border:1px dashed #aaaaaa; They can be deleted, making it a 0 border. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Karpinski" <dick(a)cfcl.com> To: <mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 1:05 PM Subject: [Mediawiki-l] How to avoid boxing indented text?

Some pages in my wiki are loaded from preexisting files which include indented text. Putting such text in dashed boxes messes up the document. I think I could use <pre> tags but I believe that would prevent the text from reformatting to fit smaller or larger windows, Is there another way to avoid the boxing? Dick _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Jamie Bliss

6:58 p.m.

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Spaces to indent denotes code within MediaWiki. To indent, replace each leading space with a colon (":"). This is code. It was indented with a space. :This is an indented paragraph. It was indented with a colon. On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:05:07 -0700, Richard Karpinski <dick(a)cfcl.com> wrote:

Some pages in my wiki are loaded from preexisting files which include indented text. Putting such text in dashed boxes messes up the document. I think I could use <pre> tags but I believe that would prevent the text from reformatting to fit smaller or larger windows, Is there another way to avoid the boxing? Dick _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Rowan Collins

9:40 p.m.

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On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:58:08 -0400, Jamie Bliss <astronouth7303(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Spaces to indent denotes code within MediaWiki. To indent, replace each leading space with a colon (":").

Or, to be precise, they are treated as though the paragraph was wrapped in <pre>...</pre>. The dashed border is the CSS rule applied to "pre" elements. -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]

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Paul Johnson

31 Oct 31 Oct

9:46 a.m.

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Some pages in my wiki are loaded from preexisting files which include indented text.

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Is there another way to avoid the boxing?

Indent the first line and let the text box line wrap as usual. When it's rendered as a wiki node, you'll see that every line in that paragraph is indented.

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