In the bbPress forums stylesheet (in the custom theme for bbPress.org, not the default theme), you have this:

.post {

overflow: hidden;

}

Can I request that you change the value to auto, to make it heaps easier to read users’ code postings (as they frequently overflow)?

.post {

overflow: auto;

}

[@fel64 Member 17 years, 7 months ago]

It seems to have been played around with in the past, the upshot being that code is overflow: auto. Good solution in my opinion, much more convenient for reading code, anyway.

//a really reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally long line of code

some random text

//a kinda short line of code

[@jeremyvisser Member 17 years, 7 months ago]

Yes, but people frequently forget to use the code tags for the code in their posts, leading to why I would like the whole post to be overflow: auto.

[@trent Member 17 years, 7 months ago]

I will pass this along Jeremy to mdawaffe in the bbdevlist! I know what you mean about the overflow! The only thing that fel64 has a point on is that if the text doesn’t show up, they are more likely to use the code tags.

Trent