Re: Limit Page Size of Posts in Topic

Posted by GregChapman on Jun 23, 2011; 9:34am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Limit-Page-Size-of-Posts-in-Topic-tp6499224p6507729.html

Hi Anne,

mywaytoo wrote

So is there nothing I can do, perhaps something like that <br clear=all> after pictures???

Just say Yes or No... and I'll forget it altogether... Oh, except to ask whether Nabble templates might help me???

In short the answer is No!

The only thing you can do is remove the absolute positioning code. I don't know whether/how you can do that with Sitebuilder. I doubt that you can for the following reasons...

Absolute positioning, means how far down and to the right, measured in pixels, the object sits on the page (plus how wide and high it is). That's why visual site building software uses it - it's easy to implement. However, once set in these programs, absolute positioning code is usually impossible to remove. This is because the code for it does not need to be inserted in the HTML in an order related to its position on the page and can be placed anywhere. These programs insert the HTML code for the various parts of the page in random order, depending more on the last editing action than position on the page.

If the program allowed you to remove the absolute positioning code, then your page would become utterly corrupt as the various objects jump to new positions depending on their position in the HTML and the target audience for the software wouldn't be able to unravel the code. Indeed, often the programs themselves can't fathom their own HTML code and rely on rebuilding it from a proprietary page definition file. In the program you are really editing that proprietary file and when you save the revised page the program generates a fresh HTML file from it.

From this you'll also see that Nabble templates won't help. The forum is just one more moveable object sitting on the page that you might have dragged into a new position to give it an absolute position.