Using CSS for the pre tag. white-space: pre-line not working in Chrome

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Using CSS for the pre tag. white-space: pre-line not working in Chrome

pendle666 (TechnicalUser)

(OP)

26 Dec 17 22:43

Hello and happy Christmas

I've got several thousand documents which are transcriptions of Wills. The <pre> tag is around the transcription. In my CSS I currently have:

pre    {font-family: monospace;
	font-size: 1.75em;
	line-height: 1.75em;
}

Because of the nature of the documents, a lot of them are going over their margins, so I added in this piece to the CSS

white-space: pre-line;

Now this is working in Internet Explorer and Firefox, but not in Chrome. I've tried the "modern browser" version from this code

pre {
  word-wrap: break-word;      /* IE 5.5-7 */
  white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; /* Firefox 1.0-2.0 */
  white-space: pre-wrap;      /* Modern browsers */
}

which is from https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/w... but that's not working either.

Can someone suggest what I can use? At the moment I'm manually formatting each item, but there are over 5000 of these and it's going to take forever!

thank you for helping

____________
Pendle

vacunita (Programmer) · Answer 1 · 2017-12-27 01:47:30

You could always add an overflow to the <pre> and have it scroll if the contents is too wide for the allotted space.

CODE --> css

pre    {font-family: monospace;
	font-size: 1.75em;
	line-height: 1.75em;
   overflow:scroll;
}

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pendle666 (TechnicalUser) · Answer 2 · 2017-12-27 14:38:50

Hi

I've tried the overflow option you gave me but that's not worked. I've googled this and tried a number of different options, but none are working.

Perhaps this is a Chrome specific problem with no solution?

thank you for helping

____________
Pendle

vacunita (Programmer) · Answer 3 · 2017-12-27 15:27:19

Why not? What happened when you used overflow?

Did the pre not get scroll bars?

Does the Pre have a determined width?

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Phil AKA Vacunita
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OS-ception: Running Linux on a Virtual Machine in Windows which itself is running in a Virtual Machine on Mac OSx.

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pendle666 (TechnicalUser) · Answer 4 · 2017-12-27 22:04:21

Hi

I've sorted it now using pre-wrap. No scroll bars though.

thanks for your help

thank you for helping

____________
Pendle

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