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I'm not very knowledgeable on MediaWiki, but seems to me that's just a CSS
attribute. Look in your stylesheet and find lines with "border" or "dashed",
like this:
border:1px dashed #aaaaaa;
They can be deleted, making it a 0 border.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Karpinski" <dick@cfcl.com>
To: <mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 1:05 PM
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] How to avoid boxing indented text?


> Some pages in my wiki are loaded from preexisting files which include
> indented text. Putting such text in dashed boxes messes up the
> document. I think I could use <pre> tags but I believe that would
> prevent the text from reformatting to fit smaller or larger windows, Is
> there another way to avoid the boxing?
>
> Dick
>
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> MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org
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Spaces to indent denotes code within MediaWiki. To indent, replace
each leading space with a colon (":").

This is code. It was indented with a space.

:This is an indented paragraph. It was indented with a colon.


On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:05:07 -0700, Richard Karpinski <dick@cfcl.com> wrote:
> Some pages in my wiki are loaded from preexisting files which include
> indented text. Putting such text in dashed boxes messes up the
> document. I think I could use <pre> tags but I believe that would
> prevent the text from reformatting to fit smaller or larger windows, Is
> there another way to avoid the boxing?
>
> Dick
>
> _______________________________________________
> MediaWiki-l mailing list
> MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
>


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On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:58:08 -0400, Jamie Bliss
<astronouth7303@gmail.com> wrote:
> Spaces to indent denotes code within MediaWiki. To indent, replace
> each leading space with a colon (":").

Or, to be precise, they are treated as though the paragraph was
wrapped in <pre>...</pre>. The dashed border is the CSS rule applied
to "pre" elements.

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[IMSoP]

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Richard Karpinski <dick@cfcl.com> writes:

> Some pages in my wiki are loaded from preexisting files which include
> indented text.
[...]
> Is there another way to avoid the boxing?

Indent the first line and let the text box line wrap as usual. When
it's rendered as a wiki node, you'll see that every line in that
paragraph is indented.
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