Font formating to post code & change width of the template

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  kapalic · Member · May 8, 2007 at 2:30 pm

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  I am having some problems and very much frustated to use this wonderful blog:

  1. I m planing to post some visual basic programming code in my blog, but can’t find a way to have to proper formating. I copy codes from visual basic to MS Word, and copy-paste it in the blog. There appears the exact formating which I want. But when I press the save button, the formating becomes upside down! How can I keep that formating? Can I use any CSS formating? And how?

  2. I want to modify my theme or use a theme which uses 100% space in width, so that I find more space to put code. How can I do this? Please see my blog and suggest: http://kapalic.wordpress.com

  Please resque me from these problem to use this site to blog…thnx!

  Kapalic

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  sunburntkamel · Member · May 8, 2007 at 2:34 pm

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  1. you need to wrap your code in a

  <pre> tag and a <code> tag.
  2. don’t use microsoft word. it generates messy HTML.
  3. do use http://www.htmlconvert.net/ to convert your code to HTML entities that won’t be destroyed by the editor.

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  drmike · Member · May 8, 2007 at 3:21 pm

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  2. don’t use microsoft word. it generates messy HTML.

  As well as html code that is removed due to security concerns which is why the display of teh code is changing.

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  sonofbruce · Member · May 8, 2007 at 3:30 pm

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  But you can post text from MS Word using the special secret hidden “Paste from Word” function on the Visual editor, revealed by pressing Shift+Alt+v (in Firefox) while reciting the Lord’s Prayer backwards.

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  sunburntkamel · Member · May 8, 2007 at 3:42 pm

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  that button tries to help, but it’s not supported.
  i can’t think of any benefit of pasting into word. what feature are you trying to get?

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  kapalic · Member · May 9, 2007 at 11:23 am

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  And how can I change the width of my current template so that it becomes wider ( 100% width of the browser in total with the sidebar) ?

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  sunburntkamel · Member · May 9, 2007 at 12:52 pm

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  if you have the CSS upgrade,

  #container
  {
  width: auto;
  margin: 0 2em;
  }
  #content-main
  {
  width: 70%;
  }
  #sidebar
  {
  width: 20%;
  }