Skip to main content
4 of 10
added 20 characters in body
N0rbert
  • 102k
  • 12
  • 9

Preformatted text scrolling - bug of feature?

AskUbuntu help recommend to style pre-formatted text and console output with

#four spaces

But sometimes it results in scrolling text. See this question as an example. The problematic line (as formatted by David Foerster) with console output:

'Ubuntu 18.04 LTS _Bionic Beaver_ - Release amd64 (20180426)' in the drive '/media/cdrom/' and press [Enter]

On my non-customized browsers - tested Chromium 66.0.3359.181, Firefox ESR 52.9, SeaMonkey 2.49.3, Chrome 67.0.3396.99 this text is scrollable:

Preformatted text is scrollable

Possible workaround is to use backticks:

'Ubuntu 18.04 LTS _Bionic Beaver_ - Release amd64 (20180426)' in the drive '/media/cdrom/' and press [Enter]

but some users do not like such method.

Should we avoid scrolling? Do you plan to customize this on server-side?

N0rbert
  • 102k
  • 12
  • 9