Display every comment as code?

Thanks Christine, I tried doing that. I’ve been messing with it for the last couple of hours, and tried googling it too, but haven’t had any luck.

Do you know what to edit exactly?

This might be a backwards way of doing things actually, I really just want the same font and formatting that the <code> tag does, so maybe this can actually be done with the CSS stylesheet rather than the comments.php file?

I was able to get the CSS to display the courier font, which displays the same font that the <code> tag does, but it still didn’t keep everything “in tact”. For example – comments started to go under the avatar on the left when I wanted to keep it in the same “block”, like they do here… But I noticed when I put <code> around it, it displayed it correct.

So that’s why I thought making every comment as code would be a simple way to fix it, although probably not the best.

Hi alchymyth, OK, sure it’s http://www.pinkfloydtabs.com

Here is a good example of a tab page that shows why I want to display comments as code: http://www.pinkfloydtabs.com/biding-my-time-guitar-tab

Notice how the 3rd comment is not aligned properly, but the 4th is correct. The 4th is using the “<code>” tag.

The “——-” hypens/lines get shortened for some reason if the code tag is not used, so that’s why I was thinking it might be easiest just to wrap each comment with “<code>” before, and “</code>” after, unless you have any other ideas?

OK, I moved it like you suggested, but it’s still showing the lines incorrectly.

Notice the 3rd comment here looks weird.

It is actually typed like this:

E :------------------------|------------------------|
B :------------3-----3-----|4---5-6---5-------------|
G :1-----1-----2-----2-----|6---7-8---7-------------|
D :2-----2-----1-----1-----|5---6-7---6-------------|
A :2-----2-----2-----2-----|6---7-8---7-------------|
E :0-----0-----------------|------------0-----------|

But it is displaying it isn’t displaying it like that as you can see.

It only seems to show correctly if I add the <code> tag before and after. So that’s why I was thinking maybe just make every comment add that <code> tag automatically. Which can probably be done in the comments.php file, unless you know of a way to fix it in the css?

It’s not using different characters… I just made a new comment to be sure… Here is exactly the comment I made:

E :------------------------|------------------------|
B :------------3-----3-----|4---5-6---5-------------|
G :1-----1-----2-----2-----|6---7-8---7-------------|
D :2-----2-----1-----1-----|5---6-7---6-------------|
A :2-----2-----2-----2-----|6---7-8---7-------------|

E :------------------------|0-----------------------|
B :0---------0-----------0-|--0---4-----3---3-2-----|
G :0---0-----------0-------|----0-----0---0---------|
D :------------------------|------------------------|
A :------0---2-------------|------------------0---2-|
E :0---------0-------0-----|0-----2-----3-----------|
and if you don't mind...
E :0-----0-----------------|------------0-----------|

And here is how it is showing up:

E :————————|————————|
B :————3—–3—–|4—5-6—5————-|
G :1—–1—–2—–2—–|6—7-8—7————-|
D :2—–2—–1—–1—–|5—6-7—6————-|
A :2—–2—–2—–2—–|6—7-8—7————-|
E :————————|0———————–|
B :0———0———–0-|–0—4—–3—3-2—–|
G :0—0———–0——-|—-0—–0—0———|
D :————————|————————|
A :——0—2————-|——————0—2-|
E :0———0——-0—–|0—–2—–3———–|
and if you don’t mind…
E :0—–0—————–|————0———–|

You can view it here: http://www.pinkfloydtabs.com/biding-my-time-guitar-tab#comment-58 – it’s the 6th comment.

It appears to be “shortening” the —– lines for some reason. I don’t know why or how to fix it.

alchymyth, any other ideas? or anyone else?