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Checking out the forums with a Windows box (running XP in this case) as I frequently do when there's no Mac available I noticed earlier today that some* Code boxes appear empty (see FAQ > What UBB Code can I use? > Code Tags).

I wonder if this is 'normal' under Windows, or if this is a peculiarity of the Windows box I happened to be using when I noticed this*2). Can anybody try this and post the result here? Please include in your reply the Windows version you're running, plus that of any Service Pack installed.


*) The 2 examples DK provides are the ones that are empty. DK's quote of Virtual1's code appears OK, as does the code in V1's original post.

*2) Meanwhile, I found the same on another XP box, so this issue doesn't seem machine-specific.

Hi, alternaut

On a Dell running Microsoft Windows XP – Professional Version 2002 – Service Pack 3 and using Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.13, this is what I see:

FTM code display in Windows XP

I have not been able to discover why Virtual1's original code displays fine and the second and third do not.

Thanks, Dianne, that's exactly what I see. Sure looks like a bug, doesn't it?

The error shows up in Internet Explorer 8 too but not in Google Chrome, or Firefox running on Windows XP. I am aghast that Microsoft would improperly render an HTML tag.

Internet Explorer doesn't seem to handle the div that holds the PRE tag correctly and is causing the horizontal scrollbar to appear over top of the single line of text in the PRE tag.

You can add the following to your ubbthreads_finetunedmac theme css file:



or if you just want it to apply to IE, edit the template to add an IE only css file by adding the following to the head:



and include the above css code in that file instead.

Thanks Kevin. I'm sure tacit will be interested in this.