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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by IGBAN » May 21, 2016 7:00am | Report
First and foremost I don't know where to put this thread. I can't find anything in dotafire regarduing guide-making problems :/


So today I faced off against a problem to my still-created guide... The text seems to overlap inside or outside the spoiler. The other chapters are fine except for this one. I tried making a new chapter and then well, it didn't solve the problem. It's best to be explained through pictures...


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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Wulfstan » May 21, 2016 7:38am | Report
Moved to proper subforum. Are you by chance using Justify? I am not sure if it's possible to use it while writing guides, but I just want to make sure. Because your lines are aligned both at the begining and at the end.

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by TheSofa » May 21, 2016 8:06am | Report
It appears you have used the "float" command without using the "clear" command. "clear" is like a "/float".

Either that, or you have a table/columns that you forgot about.

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by IGBAN » May 21, 2016 9:44am | Report
Quoted:
Moved to proper subforum. Are you by chance using Justify? I am not sure if it's possible to use it while writing guides, but I just want to make sure. Because your lines are aligned both at the begining and at the end.


Thank you for moving it to the right subforum :), I needed help back there lol
I don't think so :/. I even made a new chapter and tested it out, didn't seem to change anything :/.

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It appears you have used the "float" command without using the "clear" command. "clear" is like a "/float".

Either that, or you have a table/columns that you forgot about.


I don't use the "float" command, it's quite hard for me to understand it's use. I'll check my coding ASAP so I can continue, but do BBCodes/Commands still continue on to the chapters if not canceled?

I don't think I understood myself let me try to make it clearer:

If I used the float command for example, on my 1st chapter, and I didn't do a /float or something, will it affect every chapter after it?

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by IGBAN » May 21, 2016 9:52am | Report
I just checked and went through the whole thing, but I didn't use /justify or anything like that at all. I'm using a table-styled "rule" but it's working out fine. I ended it with a [/table] and stuff.

Tried to make a fake guide and the thingies are still there :/

If it helps I'm using Firefox and it's up to date

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Janitsu » May 21, 2016 10:03am | Report
Could you copy the code of this chapter to a pastebin.com paste and link it here? I could take a look.

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by IGBAN » May 21, 2016 10:20am | Report
Quoted:
Could you copy the code of this chapter to a pastebin.com paste and link it here? I could take a look.


Apparently, this problem has caused EVERY OTHER guide to be affected... I tried making a new test guide and I just held "q" for 10-seconds and the same problem occurred. So I don't think the problem here is my coding with the guide. But I'm willing to try :).

Here's the link:

http://pastebin.com/pkc0nsTX

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by Janitsu » May 21, 2016 10:38am | Report
I noticed at least two problems that may break your code.

1. You don't seem to have a [/columns] tag to end the columns
2. When you use a nextcol, you usually want to define the width of it by using [nextcol width=px] instead of [b][/b]

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by IGBAN » May 21, 2016 10:44am | Report
Thank you so much for checking it out! I'll try it right now in hopes of finishing this one guide.

The nextcol thing code was just copy-pasted from here... Except it's different in formatting and content of course. Although it worked well on my Sven guide o.O I don't know where I messed up, and I'm glad you pointed things out for me as I am very new to using BBCodes :)

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Permalink | Quote | PM | +Rep by IGBAN » May 21, 2016 10:51am | Report
OMG, THANK YOU SO MUCH JANITSU! Thank you to everyone who helped me :D. I finally solved the problem by ending the columns with a /columns as Janitsu suggested :D it worked :P haha...


P.S. I wish I could +rep multiple of times to the moderators/editors here in dotafire :). You guys are so helpful! :D

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