[Tools-discuss] changed alignment of main content in HTML versions of docs?

[Benjamin Kaduk]

Hi all,

I think that "recently" (in the past few weeks, maybe? I was not good at
taking notes), the HTML rendering of documents on tools.ietf.org has
changed from having the main <pre> content being basically left-aligned to
being more center-aligned. On the face of it this would be good, as
centering is kinder to the reader and meets modern expectations for page
behvaior. However, when I go to copy/paste a chunk of text, there is now a
huge left margin that I can't start my click+drag on in order to select
text. Instead, I have to find something within the <pre>, and if I want
uniform indentation, I have to hunt for the actual boundary of the <pre>
where my cursor changes from a pointer to a text-selection 'I'.

Does this change ring a bell for anyone, and is there any hope for a tweak
that would make text-selection easier with the new layout?

Thanks,

Ben

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[Henrik Levkowetz]

Hi Ben,

Post by Benjamin Kaduk
Hi all,
I think that "recently" (in the past few weeks, maybe? I was not good at
taking notes), the HTML rendering of documents on tools.ietf.org has
changed from having the main <pre> content being basically left-aligned to
being more center-aligned. On the face of it this would be good, as
centering is kinder to the reader and meets modern expectations for page
behvaior. However, when I go to copy/paste a chunk of text, there is now a
huge left margin that I can't start my click+drag on in order to select
text. Instead, I have to find something within the <pre>, and if I want
uniform indentation, I have to hunt for the actual boundary of the <pre>
where my cursor changes from a pointer to a text-selection 'I'.

Hmm. Yes. I see that this works as I'd expect in Firefox, but in Safari
it will start the selection at the top of the page if I start the drag in
the margin.

Ok, I'll see if there is a simple approach which will improve this.


Regards,

Henrik

Post by Benjamin Kaduk
Does this change ring a bell for anyone, and is there any hope for a tweak
that would make text-selection easier with the new layout?
Thanks,
Ben
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