# Those blue lines under your post....

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-blue-lines-under-your-post/415250
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [August 11, 2007, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-blue-lines-under-your-post/415250 "2007-08-11T12:50:46Z")
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### Author: ![rocksolid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@rocksolid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocksolid)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2007, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-blue-lines-under-your-post/415250/1 "2007-08-11T12:50:46Z")

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Why i care i don’t know, but i’m curous.

What dicates the width and thickness of the blue line that seperates posts in a thread? It isn’t standard and seems to vary randomly in thickness and whether it goes all the way to the right hand side or not.

What gives?

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### Author: ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2007, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-blue-lines-under-your-post/415250/2 "2007-08-11T12:58:14Z")

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Not seeing this. Seems to be all the same to me.

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### Author: ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2007, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-blue-lines-under-your-post/415250/3 "2007-08-11T14:18:17Z")

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We’ve had this complaint before.

Apparently in some browsers the lines vary in thickness. Not sure why or what that means.

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### Author: ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-blue-lines-under-your-post/415250/4 "2007-08-11T15:41:52Z")

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Just from a quick search:

[Anyone else see the “sometimes” blue border inbetween posts?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=400009)

[The Mysterious Disappearing Line!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=318319)

[Bar bars between posts](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=262582)

[Question about the formatting of replies on this board.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=269508)

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### Author: ![wendigo1974](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@wendigo1974](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wendigo1974)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-blue-lines-under-your-post/415250/5 "2007-08-11T17:26:33Z")

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I’m using IE 7 and I find that when I’m scrolling up and down a thread using meh mouse wheel the presence and width of the lines changes on the fly.  
Call it a ‘feature’.