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Prevent phpBB 'code' tag from eating leading spaces?

stuart
Who joined Aug. 24, 2004, 12:37 a.m.
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Wrote the following at Jan. 31, 2008, 12:24 p.m...

As noted here , phpBB's 'code' tag removes any leading spaces from a line - which, for code, is almost definitely not what's wanted.

Is there any phpBB setting which can be hacked/changed to preserve all line-spacing within 'code' tags?

ShadeOfBlue
Moderator
Who joined Nov. 25, 2003, 8:09 p.m.
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Wrote the following at Jan. 31, 2008, 1:30 p.m...

It seems to work fine here (Safari 3.0.4) ...

Code:

. -> no leading spaces

. -> 2 spaces

. -> 4

. -> 8

. -> 16

What browser are you using? It's possible it doesn't have support for the CSS white-space property or that it in some way alters the text you enter.

stuart
Who joined Aug. 24, 2004, 12:37 a.m.
and authored 911 notes

Wrote the following at Jan. 31, 2008, 6:37 p.m...

Interesting - I can see spaces in your reply...

I pasted in the output from 'diff' in the post above ( http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=16878 ) with neko_firefox-2.0.0.11, and I can't see any leading spaces!

nekonoko
Site Admin
Who joined Jan. 23, 2003, 9:31 a.m.
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Wrote the following at Jan. 31, 2008, 9:41 p.m...

I haven't noted any problems with it either - otherwise all of the 'hinv' outputs would look funny, and they're all fine.

stuart
Who joined Aug. 24, 2004, 12:37 a.m.
and authored 911 notes

Wrote the following at Feb. 1, 2008, 12:36 a.m...

It must be something about the characters in the text, then (the troffrc file does tend to look like line-noise

) - I've just re-edited the post with Safari, and the message body definitely contains leading spaces... which the rendered version definitely doesn't.

So there's definitely something wrong here - but it's something which doesn't affect hinv posts or SOB's post above.

Code:

. <- test 0

. <- test 0

. <- test 1

. <- test 1

. <- test 2

. <- test 2

Ah-ha! There we go! Single spaces at the start of lines in code blocks are being dropped!