But you are sure, that you modded the css-files in your
Board? Do you have the code that thm posted, in your
normal css-files?

like this...before


after.

OK, I think i see the error, looking at the css files together as above i can see there is an error in the lower section of the black box, the template don't look right there is an alignment issue as well. I'll work on it, thanks.. * THEWISEOLDOWL

Great work on the shoutbox.  Its greatly improved since I've been involved.  One little thing that I've noticed.

When people post long strings without any spaces like when they post a long url it screws up the layout of the shoutbox.  A good idea I've seen used on other forums is when someone posts a long link the forum creates a hyperlink using the first 15 or 20 characters of the original link.

For example hxxp://www.boardmod.org/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1240306166/60#60  

would be hxxp://www.boardmod.org/yab...

There should also be a check for people who intentionally post long strings without spaces.  We should force a line break for strings with no spaces as to not screw the layout of the shoutbox.

ThM...

I can't say that I fully understand this code so you might just want to check it over, but this seems to fix the problem that DOT-COM mentioned:

In ShoutDisplay.pl find:

sub my_wrap3 {
    $shout_message =~ s~(<.*>)*(\S{0,14})(\S{0,14})?(\S{0,14})?(\S{0,14})?(\S*)?(<.*>)*~$1$2 $3 $4 $5 $6$7~gi;
    $shout_message =~ s~(<.*>)?(\S{0,14})(\S{0,14})?(\S{0,14})?(\S{0,14})?(\S*)(<\/\S*>)~$1$2 $3 $4 $5 $6$7~gi;
    $shout_message =~ s~\s+~ ~gi;
} 

And replace with this (I've taken this straight from Subs.pl):

sub my_wrap3 {
    $linewrap = 48;
    $message =~ s#<a href=(\S*?)(\s[^>]*)?>(\S*?)</a># my ($mes,$out,$i) = ($3,"",1); { while ($mes ne "") { if ($mes =~ s/^(<.+?>)//) { $out .= $1; } elsif ($mes =~ s/^(&.+?;|\[ch\d{3,}\]|.)//) { last if $i > $linewrap; $i++; $out .= $1; if ($mes eq "") { $i--; last; } } } } "<a href=$1$2>$out" . ($i > $linewrap ? "..." : "") . "</a>" #eig;
} 

The highlighted '48' is obviously the number of characters before the line wraps, so you can change it to whatever you think best (or even make it a variable so it can be changed in Shoutbox Settings).

No problem - Glad to be of some use.

Thanks again Derek, works .....  sup:

I've added a variable

$linewrap = $lwshouts; 

so the admin can set in the shoutbox settings after how many chars comes a linebreak. Same we have in ShoutAdmin.pl ......

ThM and Derek, Great stuff I wasn't expecting such a fast response. I have just a few questions and a suggestion.

In forums with "Auto-link URLs? " disabled, if a user copies the url and pastes to his browser does the link with a linebreaked URL still work? With "Auto-link URLs? " enabled does the link work?

I can live with a manual setting for linebreak but I suggest it would be easier for the average user if you just set the linebreak variable to whatever the admin determines the width of the shoutbox to be?

For example,  If the user chooses 400 for the shoutbox width than make the line break at
$linewrap= $shout_width - (width of the vertical scrollbar if used + width of margins).

Great work guys, this mod is the best.