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Originally Posted by Txsunman
TY to all for your input! Running Vista (MS). The pictures are not the prob. Sometimes (very seldom) the whole screen is too big for my screen i. e. I have to scroll horizontally to read the screen then scroll the other way to start reading the next line Thanks again! I guess you have to SEE it to really know what is happening??
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Text on a website will always reflow to fit the available horizontal window size.
To illustrate, if the window in which you have ECCIE open is maximized, press the restore button.
Now grab one a corner or edge of the window and move it in and out, observing the text of the posts. It will reflow to fit the horizontal window size until a certain lower limit is reached. That lower limit is set by the web designer and will vary from site to site, page to page and even element to element. In this case, the table cell that holds the text of posts has a lower limit around 300 pixels. Unless your screen is very, very small, your screen resolution will be well above that limit.
A block level element must be expanding the page content beyond your window size. The most common block level elements that can't be reflowed are images and embedded objects like video, flash, etc. Since the latter isn't permitted here, the likely culprit in your case will be a large image somewhere on the page you are veiwing. Text on the page will be exactly as wide as the image.
The next time you see a page "too big for [your] screen" scroll up and down the page. I'm certain you will find a large image temporarily expanding the horizontal content width beyond your window/screen size.
Using the options I posted above, ECCIE should have large images resized smaller for you, "restoring" text to a reflowable format.
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