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How do posts work!? How many words does it take before the next word is placed on the next line? Just when you think you've worked it out it changes on you...
Is it random between about 17 and 23 words? 95 to 105 characters?
Why doesn't the preview show you exactly how your post will look?

If anyone can work it out it would be greatly appreciated.

  • 06.14.2012 5:40 AM PDT
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Posted by: Skibur
Why doesn't the preview show you exactly how your post will look?
Does it not?

  • 06.14.2012 5:44 AM PDT
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Posted by: Telec
Posted by: Skibur
Why doesn't the preview show you exactly how your post will look?
Does it not?
It does not.

  • 06.14.2012 5:45 AM PDT
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The way the text wraps in the preview is different to how it will wrap in the submitted post.

The preview area is narrower.

  • 06.14.2012 5:49 AM PDT

There comes a time in every mans life... and that time is not now.


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Posted by: Skibur
Posted by: Telec
Posted by: Skibur
Why doesn't the preview show you exactly how your post will look?
Does it not?
It does not.


How so?

Type more than 1 line of text and you'll see.

  • 06.14.2012 5:50 AM PDT

Posted by: A Bit Of Zero
This thread would have appealed to me more if it was written with crayons.
Posted by: King Dutchy
I broke one of the cords for my X11s because I couldn't get past the final American course in Doritos Crash Course.

Maybe it depends on the size of the letters - like the capital H in your first sentence is the size of 2 letters in the line bellow. Basically it decides in pixels rather than characters.

[Edited on 06.14.2012 5:57 AM PDT]

  • 06.14.2012 5:53 AM PDT
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“Strange,” mused the Director, as they turned away, “strange to think that even in Our Ford’s day most games were played without more apparatus than a ball or two and a few sticks and perhaps a bit of netting. imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption.”

The Black Chapter!

Posted by: Skibur
The preview area is narrower.
Top Forum Topics is a duvet-stealer. Burn Bright, Burn Blue is a much more amiable bed-fellow.

  • 06.14.2012 5:55 AM PDT

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Posted by: Skibur
Posted by: Telec
Posted by: Skibur
Why doesn't the preview show you exactly how your post will look?
Does it not?
It does not.

Do you mean the white box that you type your text into or the actual preview button?

  • 06.14.2012 6:04 AM PDT
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Hmm, I had thought about character width... Anyone care to count the pixels?

  • 06.14.2012 6:05 AM PDT
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Posted by: Adamcunn
Posted by: Skibur
Posted by: Telec
Posted by: Skibur
Why doesn't the preview show you exactly how your post will look?
Does it not?
It does not.

Do you mean the white box that you type your text into or the actual preview button?
Well, both...

  • 06.14.2012 6:06 AM PDT

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Wow that is weird. I see what you mean now.

[Edited on 06.14.2012 7:21 AM PDT]

  • 06.14.2012 6:11 AM PDT
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Shoot pool, not people.

Obvious alt

I've wondered this as well

  • 06.14.2012 6:17 AM PDT

Well I guess I better put some pants on.

I feel like I'm gonna break this thing!

It's because the Top Forum Topics is wider than the Create New and Save Thread buttons when viewing a thread.
It's 548px when viewing a thread and 493px when creating a post. After you hit preview you can edit the width with the developer tools (F12). It's not ideal but it will save you from the precious edit tag you hate to see.

Edit: If using Firefox or Chrome, when creating a post and after you choose preview:
- hit F12
- search for "postbody"
- select the line which the first result is on
- look on the right for "width: 493px" (should be the first thing) and hover over it
- In Chrome, uncheck the tick box, and in FF, select the no sign

It should auto resize to the right width.

[Edited on 06.14.2012 7:15 AM PDT]

  • 06.14.2012 6:40 AM PDT

When I grow up I want to be bitter and spiteful.

"i liked the reality where everything was on fire better"
-legato on remedial chaos theory

I find it humorous that Adamcunn is incapable of writing more than one line of coherent sentences and had to resort to posting nonsense.

  • 06.14.2012 6:49 AM PDT
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I am glad it is this way. It makes it more difficult for users to write/draw roflcopters and other such nonsense.

  • 06.14.2012 7:02 AM PDT

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  • 06.14.2012 7:22 AM PDT

I want to know this too. I tried making a quote line that did not reach the whole page, and was very sad and frustrated.

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EDIT: See^

It really isn't a big deal, but I would love to know what the number is as well.

[Edited on 06.14.2012 7:23 AM PDT]

  • 06.14.2012 7:22 AM PDT

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I find it humorous that Adamcunn is incapable of writing more than one line of coherent sentences and had to resort to posting nonsense.

Nonsense? You read it wrong.

  • 06.14.2012 7:24 AM PDT

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You can always use a quote line like this.

  • 06.14.2012 11:14 AM PDT

Key

It varies because, unlike the font used in the box where you type out your post, the letters of the font used in the actual post do not all take up the same about of pixels (width-wise).

abcedfghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
..........................

^In the writing box, those two lines take up the same amount of space. It all has to do with which characters you use.

[Edited on 06.14.2012 11:25 AM PDT]

  • 06.14.2012 11:23 AM PDT

Please stop complaining about the 'death of a loved one' it's my job. They probably deserved it anyways. Here's a warning, if you keep making pentagrams out of the neighbors livestock I will personally come to your house and kill everyone you love. Now leave me alone, I got to get back to work.
~M.D~

I don't think it matters. I just type my thoughts and move on.

  • 06.14.2012 11:27 AM PDT

Posted by: mister death
I don't think it matters. I just type my thoughts and move on.
Word, brotha man. Let the universe flow through your words.

*snaps fingers*

  • 06.14.2012 11:32 AM PDT

AFAIK, the server-side breaks apart strings at about 60 character increments. So for every 60 characters of actual text, a space is added so a single string doesn't overflow the containing element and break the page formatting.

The inherent problem with that is each character is not monospaced (eg. courier), so typing consecutive "wide characters" like an @ symbol (as opposed to something slimmer like a lower-case i or pipe) renders the above system useless. The server-side is also incapable of determining the width of characters as well, since HTML is not rendered there; it is wholly dependent on the client's software, preferences, and settings (both browser default fonts and system character mappings).

The reason you can still type out a long string of consecutive "wide characters" and not have it break the page is because of a special CSS rule that's applied to the elements that contain the post text which breaks apart text onto new lines without it overflowing. The problem is that specific CSS rule (word-wrap) is only implemented in more modern browsers that implement CSS3 specifications, which is why I'm willing to bet $10 the line below will extend outside of the post container in an older browser.

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  • 06.14.2012 11:48 AM PDT

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