The horizontal scroll bars in stackoverflow get in the way of text
using MacOS Firefox Developer 41.0a2 build 20150721004010
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Is it possible to zoom in and out to see text?
guigs said
Is it possible to zoom in and out to see text?
Yes, zooming out works; the biggest annoyance is for code snippets that are only one line.
Zooming in rather
Can you attach a screenshot?
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Screenshot attached of url: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27748413/why-do-image-tags-work-in-regular-views-but-not-mailer-views
As you can see it only happens when a line extends beyond the width of the pre tag.
It is possible that a "white-space: pre" instead of "white-space: pre-wrap" is used on the website or no white-space property at all.
What kind of element gets selected if you right-click that long text and open the Inspector via Inspect Element?
This could probably be fixed with code in userContent.css or Stylish.
- @-moz-document domain(stackoverflow.com) {}
I'm sure it's no consolation that the scroll bar has its own row in Firefox 39 on Windows (screen shot attached).
Is that the default theme?
cor-el said
It is possible that a "white-space: pre" instead of "white-space: pre-wrap" is used on the website or no white-space property at all. What kind of element gets selected if you right-click that long text and open the Inspector via Inspect Element?
I thought it may be a browser issue as it displays correctly in Chrome, maybe there are some internal tweaks that could be applied to mimic Chrome's rendering? It's a pre-tag around a code tag around multiple spans.
jscher2000 said
Is that the default theme?
Yes, both the default FF dev and MacOS theme