[pmwiki-users] Selecting a Wiki engine...

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On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 17:13:50 -0500
"Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:00:49PM -0700,
> pmwiki at 911networks.com wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 16:36:23 -0500
> > "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > Oh, but you can!  You just have to add "overflow" to the
> > > set of allowed CSS properties (in local/config.php):
> > > 
> > >     $WikiStyleCSS[] = 'overflow';
> > > 
> > > Then the following should work:
> > > 
> > >  %define=box block bgcolor=#ffffcc border="2px dotted
> > > grey" width:650px overflow:auto%
> > > 
> > > See, for example http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/Overflow .
> > 
> > Does NOT work for me! I must be missing something else in my
> > local/config.php.
> 
> Does the test page work for you (from the url I gave above)?

Your test page works. It does display the scroll bar.

> 
> Also, the %define=box ...% line has to be all on one line,
> despite how it got formatted in my email message above.

Yes, I made sure of that.

> 
> Lastly, note that it's entirely possible to get any CSS to
> work by defining a custom class and using that:
> 
>  
>    $HTMLStylesFmt[] = ' 
>      .box { background-color:#ffffcc; border=2px dotted grey; 
>             width:650px; overflow:auto; } ';
> 
>    %define=box block class=box%

Tried both way and still not joy. For me the text wraps at
650px instead of doing the scroll :(


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