Code Tags

[gummibaerchen]

Hi,

are there any chances for better "Code Tags"?

I mean the font in the real [CODE]-Tags sucks.

HTML-Code-Tags oder the PHP-Code-Tags have a much better Font.

[code]-Tags are no use for example when publishing Shell output.

And on the other hand it's stupid when I wrap my Pyhton-Program in PHP-Code-Tags.

Here a quick comparisation:

The original CODE-Tags, which suck

The HTML-Code-Tags which are all right.

The PHP-Code-Tags which are superfluous 

Regards

[po0f]

gummibaerchen,

I've raised this issue before, as well as another member, but the problem still hasn't been fixed. I have been using a combination of [code] and [font="Courier New"] tags, but it is kind of annoying to have to resort to this combination, considering I use this/these tags a lot.

[jpeddicord]

Add my vote for better stylizing of CODE tags. The variable fonts in the tags tend to get annoying with code.

[matthew]

Doing this would involve more than just changing an admin setting. As far as I can tell it would require a bit of hacking at a deeper level. At best it could make it on to an already long list of "if I ever have some free time" projects ubuntu-geek would like to do. More likely I should just say, "We hear what you're saying. Sorry, it's not something we can change at the moment."

[jpeddicord]

I'm bored , so I managed to find the right style to change in case there ever is time to do it. I found this about halfway down vB's generated CSS file, however it is probably in a different file than that knowing the way it handles CSS.

Quick font patch:

.ubuntu_codebackground
{
	font-weight: normal;
	font: monospace, Verdana, Sans-Serif;
	background: #F8F8F3;
	border-right: 1px solid #ddddc5;
	border-top: 1px solid #ddddc5;
	border-left: 6px solid #ddddc5;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #ddddc5;
}

(I love the web developer Firefox extension)

Jacob

[ubuntu-geek]

It'll be fixed in the next update which will happen sometime in the next month.

[Ben Sprinkle]

No, the code tags actually look better.

[dorcssa]

Actually I don't even understand the problem... You have problem with the fontstyle? If that's the issue, I do't see much difference, so why bother?

[po0f]

matthew/ubuntu-geek,

I hope my tone didn't come off as being accusative ("They know, they just don't fix it."), I was just pointing out that they do know, but here's a work-around. Entering the [code][font="blar"] tags is pretty much automatic on my part now when posting code. When it is indeed fixed, I'm sure I'll redundantly add the [font] tags just out of habit for a while.


dorcssa,

If you notice from the first post, the text between [code] tags are rendered in a sans-serif font, not really optimal when viewing "code" (can mean a few things, namely code and terminal output). A mono-spaced font would be much better. The [html] and [php] tags render their text as mono-spaced, which is expected behavior, and wanted for the vanilla [code] tags as well.

[gummibaerchen]

But why is there a special "PHP"-Tag anyway? I noticed that in many BB-softwares.

I mean syntaxhighlighting would be the the greatest, but why only PHP?

At least I would expect C, C++ and Python highlightings in an Ubuntuforum.