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Go to any article, any article at all that has comments.

Then go to a nested view for those comments.

You will see that on all the default themes and I am sure most custom ones that the sub comments run off the right hand side of the page.

I have brought this up and been ignored in the past. I dont see why nobody has much to say about this.

What causes it??

Sorry just feeling like I have been

thanks

I see what you mean, I'll take a look at this this coming weekend (assuming I have time). I think its just a style issue.

-Vinny

I don't, actually

Anyone care to provide some screenshots?

bye, Dirk

I will do, when I get home this evening.

I will also see if it is only in IE that it is an issue as that is all I have at work. I use Firefox at home.

Thanks

Ok I took this screen shot and posted a link to it here a while ago but here it is again.

you will see the text just goes off into nowhere on the right.

GL Nested Error Image

looked at your pic and that is most definitely a style issue.
you'll have to scour your template and css files looking for widths.

My bet is that you are using a css laid out design and the plugin is breaking it with a width of 100%.

a quick fix, if that's the prob, would be to shove the content column, or at least when it calls a plugin with 100% widths, into a table cell:
If you don't want the content to be in a cell all the time, but only when a plugin is called, this is what i did in my COM_siteHeader():
You can put that in a custom COM_siteHeader().

If that's not the problem, sorry.

just noticed you said it was happening with article comments. hmmm... prolly have to scour the layout in your /layout/theme/comments dir.

I am actually a version or so behind and it does not happen on my site but I see it in all the default themes on geeklog.net so I thought I would bring it up again.

Yeah, I noticed this problem a while ago. My fix for it can be found back on this thread.

http://www.geeklog.net/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=3&showtopic=32216

I fixed it by encasing the comment in another table in the template, as mentioned above, and it does only occur in IE, as mentioned above. I imagine that vinny will get a patch in the next release.

Oh, and not to beat a dead horse, but it is definitively a problem with the IE rendering engine. It seems to me that it's a flaw in the way they handle tables, but since most people use IE (including most of my users), I can appreciate wanting to solve this.

A full report of my experiments can be found at the same link, here.

Happens in Firefox on my home box.

???

Odd. I figured the problem was only in IE. I'm surprised that the Firefox people would have made the same (poor) choice, IMHO. I don't think that this a bug in the browsers, per se, since it may not be specified how to handle indents like this. However, I struggle to think of a way that this behavior could be useful.