Need help with box space

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  niyabowman · Member · Sep 8, 2007 at 2:46 pm

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  I posted a new page and all the words don’t show up because the space box is limiting. How do I fix this?

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 8, 2007 at 2:53 pm

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  Can you provide a link to the post? The words should wrap around normally and all display; the post should simply get longer. It’s easier to diagnose the problem if we can look at it directly.

  Also: please change the link on your username to your WordPress.com blog. For purposes of the forums, links to all non-WP.com sites are completely irrelevant.

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  drmiketemp · Member · Sep 8, 2007 at 3:00 pm

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  I believe this is the page that she is discussing:

  http://niyabowman.wordpress.com/downtown-durham-events/

  I’m on my locked down terminal so I can’t pull up source code from here. I’m betting though that that is a table with a width markup though. Someone care to check please?

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  katm · Member · Sep 8, 2007 at 3:12 pm

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  There are tables and some have a fixed number for the width and some have a percentage.

  For example.

  <td height="1" colSpan="4" width="701" align="center">

  and

  <td height="115" bgColor="#ffffff" width="96%" align="center" vAlign="top">

  Hope that’s what you were looking for drmike.

  It’s been ages since I did a table in html.

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  drmiketemp · Member · Sep 8, 2007 at 3:15 pm

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  Thanks. As katm confirms, you have width markup in your html. It’s wider than when the theme allows for so the browser is forcing it past the right hand side of the content area.

  I’d try removing any mention of width from the code that you copied and pasted in there and see if that helps. The percentages shouldn’t matter as they’ll conform to the width of the content area. At least they should….

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  niyabowman · Member · Sep 10, 2007 at 6:46 pm

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  i’ll see if it works