Forum HTML

[hippy]

When [ code ] ... [ / code ] is used, the Forum server generates incorrectly nested / balanced HTML tags -

<code><pre><font size=2> .... </code></pre></font>

Although Internet Explorer ( and Opera 6.05 ) sorts this out, Firefox displays the code in a proportional rather than fized-width font.

 

[Technical]

Changing the order doesn't help Firefox meet the standard...

 

[hippy]

You're right. I found the 'bug' and it seems to be a Firefox problem. The <code> and <pre> tags aren't forcing a fixed-width font in Firefox, and it's using the proportional font specified in the <font> within which they are wrapped.

Changing the <font size=2> tag to <font size=2 face="courier"> fixes the problem for me.

Whilst bug hunting, I also noted that it's pretty weird HTML the Forum server throws out - paricularly multiple and misplaced </html> tags !

 

[evanh]

Just where is this standard that is being mentioned? I doubt Firefox got it wrong, more likely IE was modded to handle broken webpages.


Evan