# Formatting query - weird post underlining

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/formatting-query-weird-post-underlining/238313>\
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**Created:** [April 5, 2004, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/formatting-query-weird-post-underlining/238313 "2004-04-05T06:37:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/formatting-query-weird-post-underlining/238313/1 "2004-04-05T06:37:59Z")

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On some threads, each post is underlined by a thick blue line, and on other posts by a thin blue line. Some posts are not underlined at all, and I’ve run across a few posts that are partially underlined (e.g, only half the width of the posting box).

Just asking out of interest if there’s any reason for this, if it’s just an issue that only I’m having, or if the illuminati are trying to tell me something about each post and I haven’t figured out the code yet 🙂

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**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/formatting-query-weird-post-underlining/238313/2 "2004-04-05T13:23:32Z")

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Rest **Essured** , you are not alone:

> **[What's with different "borders"? (An observation)](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=241060)**
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> Okay, maybe it’s just me and my browser, but what’s happening with the ‘thickness’ of borders between posts? Given this thread, I notice that if you look at the blue line beneath every post, it changes from some posts to others. MEBuckner’s got a...

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**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/formatting-query-weird-post-underlining/238313/3 "2004-04-05T13:54:34Z")

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:: groan ::

**xash,** you should be put out of your misery for that one. Long day at work?

🙂

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**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/formatting-query-weird-post-underlining/238313/4 "2004-04-11T11:16:14Z")

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I thought I answered this one. Sorry.

Thanks for the link **Xash.** So I’m not the only person wondering about this, huh?

I noticed today that if I open another window in front of a SDMB page (third-sized window, not a fully maximised one), when I clsoe that window, the thread page underneath it has a different underlining. It now has thick blue underlining for the section that was covered by the closed window.

Stranger and stranger 🙂

(and the pun made me smile. I’m essured in more ways than one!)