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The horizontal scroll bars in stackoverflow get in the way of text

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  • آخر ردّ كتبه aperkins21

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using MacOS Firefox Developer 41.0a2 build 20150721004010

using MacOS Firefox Developer 41.0a2 build 20150721004010

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Is it possible to zoom in and out to see text?

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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.

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Zooming in rather

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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