It seems to vary a great deal.
OK, maybe that’s an exaggeration, as six appears to be by far the most common case (unless the OP is less than six lines). But still, for this thread I see five lines, whereas for this thread I see seven lines of text plus two blank ones.
Also, how many lines should I skip if I don’t want a spoiler to show up when I hover over the thread title?
Glad you brought that up Tim.
I used to be able to see several lines at once. Lately, I only see just one line (on different computers I might add). Anyway to change the default on this?
I’ve noticed it varies from different browsers. When I was using IE, I could see quite a few more, and the lines wrapped well. With Firefox, it “stretches” with no wrap, and I can’t even read the whole sentence.
The tooltip text itself is placed into the “title” attributes of the TD tags displaying the thread title, with actual newlines in the text eg:
<td class="alt1Active" id="t340688" title="Right now, that is.
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Part of the answer would lie in how your browser chooses to deal with the tool tip text presented this way. Firefox designers apparently decided that “tooltip” means “display in one line”.
As to what gets placed into the tooltip text, that would be a result of a decision made by some VB developer. I wouldn’t be surprised if it includes multiple lines if the first one seems short, or it’s a function of the size of the message. There may be some configuration parameter available for the administrators to tweak it.
Me too. But so far that is the only thing about FireFox that I don’t like.
Brand new Firefox user here and me three!
Four, five or six lines with IE. only one with Firefox.
But I’ll live with it, Firefox is GREAT.
This thread inspired me to see if someone’s made a Firefox extension to fix this problem. After a wee bit of searching, I found this. I’m not sure how many of you are willing to trust an extension from some random corner of the Web, but it seems to do the job for me.
I did have a little bit of trouble installing it because Firefox didn’t trust it In the end, I saved it to my hard disk and pointed Firefox to it there and huzzah!
I don’t know if it’s the case here, but I know on two other boards, that whatever you put in [brackets], doesn’t show up on the preview.
Hmm, this calls for a test in ATMB.
I’ve been trying Opera for the past couple of weeks. It only shows the message URL in the tooltip. No preview of the message content at all.
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Well hey-I am not complaining-I love Firefox. I was just hoping there was a way to change this in settings. I’d rather wait for an extension from Mozilla, though.
I’ve been using the extension Mbossa linked to for months and haven’t noticed any big problems with it. I just installed the latest version. The old version did have one bug - sometimes the tooltip area will be as big as half the screen, with the text at the top and the rest blank.
Okay, I installed the latest version last night, and it seems to have new bugs. On the earlier version, after the tooltip disappeared, you could redisplay it by moving the cursor a bit. That doesn’t work any more. Plus it doesn’t display the tip every time. Argh. Back to an earlier version.
Hold your pointer just above the thread link and it’ll work.
As far as the thread preview is concerned in general, it’s an option in the Admin Control Panel for vBulletin. The default (at least on the recent version of the software) is 300 characters.
It appears that how browsers display the “title” attribute is where it varies. Opera shows all 300 for me.