The word wrap of the post should match the word wrap of the displayed content

LastProtagonist·7/20/2014, 5:41:19 PM·4 votes·493 views

Good news, everyone! The preview function now matches the word wrap width so we can keep our goofy ASCII arts formatted!

However, there are still 2 issues remaining. I guess the preview word wrap only works with replies (this text is all one long line in my preview) and not opening posts.

Besides that, the only improvement I think could be made about this word wrapping feature would for it to extend to where we actually post so we don't have to cross-reference the preview box (which doesn't work for the op.)

2 Comments

Hyrum Graff7/20/2014, 5:52:41 PM1 votes

I'm going to disagree with you here on three grounds:

A narrower text box means a larger vertical text box. I like being able to see my post all on one screen.
Formatting marks are (obviously) not displayed in your post - they're changed to formatting; this makes it so that, even if your text box had the sameword wrap length as the post, like breaks wouldn't happen at the same place. This is a bad thing, IMO, because giving the text box the same word wrap length implies that the unformatted text will have line breaks in the same place. tl;dr, it's misleading.
You can already do this manually, for individual posts! There's a little triangle in the bottom right of the text box that you can drag to adjust the size of the box - just make it narrower, and you'll have something akin to what you're looking for.