Request for new vBscript tag

[warnold]

I'd like a [pre] tag. I've been using [ code] to simulate it, but that looks messy.

[pre] should do the same as [ code],

Originally Posted by from the vBscript documentation

The [ code] tag switches to a fixed-width (monospace) font and preseves all spacing.

except that it would not also add the indention, lines, and "Code:" header

like the code tag does

It would have come in handy for this recent post of mine when I wanted to do a simple table. I've also wanted it at least 2 previous times that I remember, but can't be bothered to lookup the threads for.

Thinking more:
Actually, all I really need is a tag that preserves all spacing, I can do everything else by combinations of other tags that already exist.

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-billy-

[hhaamu]

Technically, you can do this already by using the [ font] tag. At least the text in my .sig is monospace. Not sure if it covers the spacing part.

Let's try:

This is a fixed-width table hopefully
foo bar baz


...doesn't seem to work

[warnold]

Originally Posted by hhaamu

Technically, you can do this already by using the [ font] tag. At least the text in my .sig is monospace. Not sure if it covers the spacing part.

nope, The spacing is the only part there isn't a tag to do.


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-billy-

[GHDpro]

W   e   l   l, this was p  r  e  t  t  y easy to add.

[warnold]

Originally Posted by GHDpro

W   e   l   l, this was p  r  e  t  t  y easy to add.

Thank  y
       o
       u

OOPS: Bug: It's adding an extra line between each line of text:
Test with [ code]:

test
line 2
line 3
        8 space indented line
number  4 lined up with 8 in above line

Test with [ pre]:

test
line 2
line 3
        8 space indented line
number  4 lined up with 8 in above line

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-billy-

[GHDpro]

That would be a vB bug. vB translates all linefeeds into <br> tags,
yet <pre> also interprets the linefeeds as linefeeds. So you end up
with double lines.

Maybe a temporary solution is to enclose each line individually in <pre> tags:

Line1

Line2

Line3

Edit: Ok, guess not. Hmm...

[GHDpro]

Doh! I just figured out to fix the problem. Simply by not using
the <pre> tag to handle things on HTML level, but the <code> tag.

That kind of accomplishes what you wanted anyway: the same functionality
as the code tag without the extra frills.

(Since I modified the original vbcode, above examples now suddenly do work)

[Shii]

Test              (lots 'o spaces)              Test

[edit] It does not work.

[GHDpro]

Argh... ok, back to the drawing board.

[NightWish]

Add a "

font-family: monospace;

" and you would get the effect warnold is after -- in some browsers. However UAs can ignore the directive and some, like IE for example, do.