Hello, Tammy. I'm feeling in a pedantic mood today, which isn't always
good, but I hope my comments will be helpful.
The main thing I want to whine about is the sloppy use of the term
"tag". Your subject line suggests the <ptag should wrap, but the tag
is really only the three-character string < p >. If you had left the
"tag" out, you'd have been more correct; a <p(meaning a paragraph
marked up as such) should be expected to wrap. A better, friendlier
explanation is at
http://www.html.net/tutorials/html/lesson3.asp.
TheTamdino wrote:
I have experienced this issue in both IE and in Firefox, but usually
not the same page at the same time.
I'll have text that begins and ends with the paragraph tag <p>.
Here's that picky little point again, but potentially more serious. My
faux-arrogant (or is it faux-naive?) response: "Ah, there's your problem
then! You shouldn't end your text with a <ptag; you should end it with
the </ptag." Heh. (Actually, it wouldn't be a fatal error, but I could
use my know-it-all voice and you would cower in fear. It'd be cool.)
That's the simple difference between the word "tag" and the word
"element". You want the text marked up as a paragraph, so you add an
opening <ptag at the beginning and a closing </ptag to the end. The
text so delimited has become a paragraph element (often *called* a <p>
element for short).
This
tag is suppose to automatically wrap text based on the resolution of
the viewer's monitor.
Well, the tag doesn't *do* anything. The browser might cause wrapping of
text to occur when it renders the page, but the tags just sit there in
the source. And the resolution is only part of the equation; consider
browser window size and display of browser "chrome".
Invariably what happens is that the text will
display as thought there is a no-wrap argument.
Right now I'm working on a template which will be the bases for my
pages in a new website. I have some garbage text
A-ha! ;-)
in a paragraph to
represent the data that will eventually be there. When I view the page
in IE it looks fine. When I view it in Mozilla Firefox it does not
wrap.
Can you provide an URL for such a page? And say what version of browsers
you're testing with, window size, screen res, and whether your FF is
using a user stylesheet? Does that FF browser *always* fail to wrap
texts? Is this non-breaking text in a table?
>
Previously I had a site that did the same thing in IE. On one computer
it would wrap when viewed in IE and on another computer it did not.
Odd. Bizarre. Spooky. Possibly haunted. Do you have an URL for this
site, too? (And same questions about the differences between computers.)
HTH
--
John
