Can IE6 "wrap long lines" when displaying text?

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Is there a "wrap long lines" setting for IE6?

I was trying to view this page:

http://today.reuters.com/investing/...127_RTRIDST_0_MARKETS-CANADA-DOLLAR-BONDS.XML

and for some reason the displayed text window is absurdly wide.
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The Article you mention has the <pre>-tag around the wide text. On MSDN you
can read: "Text within the PRE element is formatted. Spaces and carriage
returns are preserved.". So it's actually a choice the sitebuilders made,
and IE6 is "only doing as he's told"?

E Tolstoj
 
So what your saying is that IE has no way to wrap to the text to the
current window even if I wanted it to.
 
So what your saying is that IE has no way to wrap to the text to the
current window even if I wanted it to.
 
Is there a "wrap long lines" setting for IE6?

I was trying to view this page:

http://today.reuters.com/investing/...127_RTRIDST_0_MARKETS-CANADA-DOLLAR-BONDS.XML

and for some reason the displayed text window is absurdly wide.
Click to expand...


That page has a "Printer Friendly" link for its article. Try that instead?

In general what you can do to wrap long lines is copy a selection of them
(e.g. using Shift-Click and Ctrl-c) and pasting them into a Notepad window.
Then make sure that Word Wrap is on in Notepad. (Alt-o,W)

Another trick which is less general (e.g. doesn't work for all pages)
is to use File, Send, Page by E-mail. At least when the E-mail client
is OE you can then use the Source pane to find the <PRE> and </PRE>
tags, delete them and then click on the Preview tab to see the paragraphs
wrapping to fit the column size.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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