[SOLVED] Blank spaces below posts

[L Bell]

re: viewing this forum using Pale Moon 25.5.0 for Atom/WinXP, and Linux.

This might seem trivial, but I have noticed a good number of posts with many 'blank' lines at the end.

It doesn't seem to be related to whether the person ends their message with a signature or not.

The number of 'blank' lines or carriage returns varies, and the same user can have a post with none, a few, or a dozen or more blank lines.

Here is a link to a post that has somewhere around 13 blank lines at its' end:

http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php ... ead#p50922

Most of this persons' posts have none or only a few blank lines, and this occurs with multiple users posts.

Has anyone else noticed this? Are some peoples' carriage return key's sticking?

[SvenG]

Each post consists of two parts, the actual post (text in this case) on the one side, the author info (User name, avatar, etc) on the other. if the post contains just a single line, the author info will be longer and there we be some empty space under the post.

[L Bell]

Each post consists of two parts, the actual post (text in this case) on the one side, the author info (User name, avatar, etc) on the other. if the post contains just a single line, the author info will be longer and there we be some empty space under the post.

Thank you SvenG - I thought I was going crazy! So, it is delineated by the user info on the right. Makes perfect sense.

A one or two line response leaves a lot of blank space if there is a good sized avatar and/or other info on the right.

[adisib]

A one or two line response leaves a lot of blank space if there is a good sized avatar and/or other info on the right.

If all the empty space bothers you (I know I don't like to scroll more than necessary, and I hate certain website designs because of wasted space and excessive scrolling when not necessary) you can turn off the display of avatars in the User Control Panel (located near the top left of the page) -> Board Preferences -> Edit Display Options -> Display Avatars. If I remember correctly, PHPbb offers different forum layouts, such as avatars and info appearing at the top of a post instead of the sides (I prefer the traditional info on the left side). I don't remember if the layout belongs to the theme (and surprisingly the Pale Moon forum doesn't seem to offer users a theme selection for users), so I'm not sure if that can be altered on a per-user basis. The only way you can reduce it for now is by disabling avatars.

Off-topic:
A carriage return is actually the character that signals a return of the cursor to the beginning of a line, not an actual new line. In Windows newlines are typically made with the combination of both the newline character and carriage return character, making it easy to consider them as the same thing.

[L Bell]

If all the empty space bothers you (I know I don't like to scroll more than necessary, and I hate certain website designs because of wasted space and excessive scrolling when not necessary) you can turn off the display of avatars in the User Control Panel (located near the top left of the page) -> Board Preferences -> Edit Display Options -> Display Avatars

That's exactly what I was looking for! Now though, I decided I like seeing the avatars when rapidly scrolling vertically, because you can visually 'zero in' on certain users and their previous posts. Probably will turn them off someday. : ) Thanks.

Off-topic:
I'm impressed with the level of adjustments you can control on this BBS. (being the author of one myself) I was proud of the sysop or user ability to set 990,001 access levels.

Off-topic:

A carriage return is actually the character that signals a return of the cursor to the beginning of a line, not an actual new line..

Yes, I'm intimately familiar with the difference between carriage returns and linefeeds! On my old computers, a carriage return generated both a return and a linefeed. When PC and Mac users began calling my system, I added ANSI support to translate the PetAscii for them, adding a LF to the CR. (hex 0D / dec 13 plus hex 0a / dec 10).

These are also quickly accessible via control/m and control/j .