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September 16, 2010
Question

Wrapping issues with higher rez/wide screen monitors?

I use RoboHelp 8.  When I view my RoboHelp-created pages on IE8 on an older computer, the text wraps fine, regardless of how you resize the Web browser window.  However, recently I tried viewing the same pages on IE8 on a newer computer that has a monitor with higher resolution and a wider screen and I noticed that the end of nearly every line of text gets slightly obscured no matter how you resize the browser window.  I have two questions:

1) Is this problem simply the result of the differences in the monitors?  Or is it the result of some other issue I'm not aware of?

2) How do I prevent this from happening?  What do I need to do to my pages in RoboHelp?  Currently, I don't set a width for the text on my pages -- even when I use tables -- so it generally goes 100% and just wraps. 

Here is an example of the problem:

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15 replies

September 22, 2010

The issue doesn't seem to appear in Firefox, only with IE8 on a wide-screen monitor so maybe this is just an IE issue.  Has anyone else noticed this issue?

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Captiv8r
Legend
September 16, 2010

Hi there

Perhaps try configuring the table so there is a right margin you can adjust? That would work for tables.

For the text, I'm wondering if perhaps you could introduce a DIV tag and specify the width so it would cause the wrapping to work properly.

Cheers... Rick

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Willam van Weelden
Inspiring
September 17, 2010

Hi,

It might be easier to directly add a style to the body element. Then you don't need to modify the topics, only a style sheet. Add

body { padding-right: 10px; }

to your css. Amend the value to increase or decrease the white space.

Greet,

Willam

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September 22, 2010

Willam -- So I would just add that bit of code to the HTML for my stylesheet and it should pad the whole page regardless of whether the text is in tables or not?

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