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I have exported my database from FieldWorks as an XHTML file, and one entry appears like this: When I build the app, the entry appears like this: There is an extra line break appearing after the sense numbers. Well, I waded into the code, and found the HTML code that the app is presenting on the screen. I exported that code and put it into an .html file, which can be found in this .zip file: entry.zip (8.4 KB) If you extrac..." /> <meta name="twitter:description" content="I’m trying to track down some entry formatting problems in DAB. I have exported my database from FieldWorks as an XHTML file, and one entry appears like this: When I build the app, the entry appears like this: There is an extra line break appearing after the sense numbers. Well, I waded into the code, and found the HTML code that the app is presenting on the screen. 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I have exported my database from FieldWorks as an XHTML file, and one entry appears like this:<br> <img src="https://community.software.sil.org/uploads/default/original/2X/9/915008485ea489393346d1b262242891e50fb614.png" alt="image" data-base62-sha1="kJuHvv5nDXGy70Ic3x3JqObGPha" width="281" height="219"></p> <p>When I build the app, the entry appears like this:<br> <img src="https://community.software.sil.org/uploads/default/original/2X/3/37470c76b114594467baf6bdd997988412933377.png" alt="image" data-base62-sha1="7T0tSJX2HqdqgyFO4xVppR8tZIz" width="313" height="330"></p> <p>There is an extra line break appearing after the sense numbers.</p> <p>Well, I waded into the code, and found the HTML code that the app is presenting on the screen. I exported that code and put it into an .html file, which can be found in this .zip file:<br> <a class="attachment" href="/uploads/short-url/ctYpDqxoTfcIcQrgtrCyCTWRdM1.zip">entry.zip</a> (8.4 KB)</p> <p>If you extract that .html file and open it in a browser, you get the layout shown above, with the extra line breaks after the sense numbers. But if I open up the Web Developer Tools and look at the data and css styles, I don’t see anything that should be pushing the rest of that sense onto the next line.</p> <p>Can someone else take a look and see if you can see why it’s doing that? A difference between XHTML and HTML?!</p> <p>Thanks,<br> Jeff</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span class='post-likes'></span> </div> </div> <div id='post_2' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.software.sil.org/u/Daniel_H'><span itemprop='name'>Daniel_H</span></a> </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2024-08-28T21:56:46Z' class='post-time'> August 28, 2024, 9:56pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2024-08-28T21:56:46Z'> <span itemprop='position'>2</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Hi Jeff</p> <p>This is the offending CSS:</p> <pre><code class="lang-auto">.entry> .senses > .sensecontent > .sense> .definitionorgloss { display: block; } </code></pre> <p>on this span:<br> <code><span class="definitionorgloss"><span lang="fr">Coutume</span></span></code></p> <p>If you remove that CSS rule, it looks right.</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span class='post-likes'></span> </div> </div> <div id='post_3' itemprop='comment' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Comment' class='topic-body crawler-post'> <div class='crawler-post-meta'> <span class="creator" itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href='https://community.software.sil.org/u/jheath'><span itemprop='name'>jheath</span></a> </span> <span class="crawler-post-infos"> <time itemprop='datePublished' datetime='2024-08-29T16:13:55Z' class='post-time'> August 29, 2024, 4:13pm </time> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content='2024-08-29T16:13:55Z'> <span itemprop='position'>3</span> </span> </div> <div class='post' itemprop='text'> <p>Thanks, Daniel, for finding that. I don’t know why I didn’t see that before, as it’s quite obvious now. A good opportunity to exercise humility… <img src="https://community.software.sil.org/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=12" title=":slight_smile:" class="emoji" alt=":slight_smile:" loading="lazy" width="20" height="20"></p> <p>It looks like that CSS rule is not found in the XHTML that is exported from FieldWorks, so now I just need to figure out where in the DAB code that it is adding that extra rule.</p> <p>Thanks for your help!<br> Jeff</p> </div> <div itemprop="interactionStatistic" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/InteractionCounter"> <meta itemprop="interactionType" content="http://schema.org/LikeAction"/> <meta itemprop="userInteractionCount" content="0" /> <span class='post-likes'></span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <footer class="container wrap"> <nav class='crawler-nav'> <ul> <li itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/SiteNavigationElement'> <span itemprop='name'> <a href='/' itemprop="url">Home </a> </span> </li> <li itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/SiteNavigationElement'> <span itemprop='name'> <a href='/categories' itemprop="url">Categories </a> </span> </li> <li itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/SiteNavigationElement'> <span itemprop='name'> <a href='/guidelines' itemprop="url">Guidelines </a> </span> </li> <li itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/SiteNavigationElement'> <span itemprop='name'> <a href='http://software.sil.org/terms-of-use/' itemprop="url">Terms of Service </a> </span> </li> <li itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/SiteNavigationElement'> <span itemprop='name'> <a href='http://software.sil.org/privacy-policy/' itemprop="url">Privacy Policy </a> </span> </li> </ul> </nav> <p class='powered-by-link'>Powered by <a href="https://www.discourse.org">Discourse</a>, best viewed with JavaScript enabled</p> </footer> <div class="buorg"><div>Unfortunately, <a href="https://www.discourse.org/faq/#browser">your browser is unsupported</a>. 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