Feature #2516
Allow word-wrapping in pre tags in Textile
| Status: | New | Start date: | 2009-01-15 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: | - | % Done: | 0% | |
| Category: | UI | |||
| Target version: | - | |||
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Description
I often copy and paste text that should be enclosed in pre tags for issues and wiki pages. Unfortunately, if the text is too long, a scroll bar appears on the pre region because of the overflow-x: auto; property. It would be nice to have the option of using pre with a special class to use the white-space: pre-wrap; property so that this can be avoided. I've attached a patch that would allow this when using HTML like pre class="wrap" in Textile. That is, if the author decides that word-wrapping is desirable when writing in Textile, they can choose it at their option.
Affected version: Redmine 0.8
pre_wrap.patch 
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History
#1 Updated by Brad Schick over 4 years ago
+1 from me!
#2 Updated by Steve Diver about 4 years ago
A very useful feature.
We quite often quote salient information from other forums and live chat, When included between
tags the text often needs reformatting to make the lines readable, and a word wrap feature is all that is needed. To be able to specify the maximum width would be nice too.
#3 Updated by Paul Rivier about 4 years ago
Hello,
As far as I know, "pre" stands for "preserve", or "preformated", that means that enclosed text should be printed verbatim, without any type of processing. This is usefull for column data, or ascii arts :)
Maybe an other environment like "cite" or ""quote" makes more sens.
#4 Updated by Steve Diver about 4 years ago
Paul Rivier wrote:
Hello,
As far as I know, "pre" stands for "preserve", or "preformated", that means that enclosed text should be printed verbatim, without any type of processing. This is usefull for column data, or ascii arts :)
Maybe an other environment like "cite" or ""quote" makes more sens.
I think you are correct.
Looking at the Text formatting help there does not appear to be tags that allow "quote" or "cite" However, ">"
Hello,
does appear to do it as in the quote of your last message. Maybe some expansion in the help, or a button in the editor would help the average user.