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Opened 17 years ago

Closed 17 years ago

Last modified 17 years ago

#4843 closed enhancement (wontfix)

Code editor should use monospace font

Reported by: hje1555's profile hje1555 Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version:
Component: TinyMCE Keywords: has-solution needs-patch
Focuses: Cc:

Description

The code editor should use a monospace font. This can be hacked into the source in the following file: wp-includes\js\tinymce\themes\advanced\css\editor_ui.css

.mceEditor { font-family: monospace; }

Change History (5)

#1 @thee17
17 years ago

  • Keywords has-solution needs-patch added

#2 @darkdragon
17 years ago

Why should the code editor use monospace font?

#3 @westi
17 years ago

  • Milestone 2.4 deleted
  • Resolution set to wontfix
  • Status changed from new to closed

-10 this would just look fugly.

#4 @Viper007Bond
17 years ago

A plugin could probably easily accomplish this.

#5 @demetris
17 years ago

Please reconsider this, that is, changing to monospace the font used in the two instances of the non-visual post editor:

  1. The HTML tab next to the visual editor
  1. The plain text area that you get if you untick "Use the visual editor when writing" in your profile

Why:

When the non-visual mode is selected, the reason is probably markup: either manually entering markup or checking the markup; a proportional font is not convenient for this.

btw, here is what I did to get a monospace font in the non-visual editor. In wp-admin/css/global.css, right under:

textarea, input, select {
    font: 13px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    margin: 1px;
    padding: 3px;
}

I added:

textarea {
    font: monospace;
}
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