[Zope] ZMI Does Not Wrap Lines in IE6

Sun, 04 Aug 2002 08:44:41 +0100

On 3/8/02 2:33 pm, "Jonathan Mark" <jonathansamuel@yahoo.com> wrote:

> The Zope Management Interface works great in Mozilla.
> However, when I access the ZMI using IE 6 the line
> wrapping is turned off, and I can only see the
> leftmost portions of my code.
> 
> Clicking on the Wider and Narrower buttons at the
> bottom of the screen seem to have no effect on anything.
> 

This snippet may help (I've not tried it though)

> I've spotted a problem with the Zope management interface that's starting to
> get annoying and _should_ be pretty easy to fix.  In IE6 the width of the
> <textarea> on the main edit object pane extends to just beyond the width of
> the pane, meaning you have to scroll the pane horizontally before you can
> grab the vertical scroll bar.  This is because of the way that IE6 renders
> code that might not be 100% standards compliant (even when a validator might
> say otherwise!) and relates to the doctype used.  You could fix this be
> doing a search+replace on the zope source code and replacing:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
> 
> with:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> 
> This switches IE6 into 'quirks' mode and will allow it to render such code
> properly.  It should have no effect on other browsers.  I've had this kind
> of problem with a few sites in IE6 and this always does the trick.

tne
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