This is happening because the black bar is part of the background image for the whole page, and all of those images are 1600 pixels wide and being applied via "legacy presentation attributes" rather than CSS, so you don't have any control over whether or not they repeat horizontally. A reasonable patch would be to add this attribute to every single BODY element on the entire site:

style="max-width: 1590px; background-repeat: repeat-y; background-color: black;"

That way, you still get a black bar at the far right, but it'll be as wide as it needs to be -- no second copy of the background graphic beyond it -- and the content won't stretch over the bar.

If it is easier to do it this way (frex if it can be done in one place rather than dozens), adding a STYLE tag to the HEAD with the contents

body { max-width: 1590px; background-repeat: repeat-y; background-color: black; }

would have the same effect (it's just a different way of writing the same thing).

Actually, it's still pretty ridiculous. Resize your browser window. :)

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No, I'll put it on the to-do list. But resize your browser window anyway.
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I kinda thought that might have been what was going on there.

>In order for the screen to be big enough that you
>could even see anything at that resolution, the picture tube would
>have to weigh like 4400 pounds!

Elder Days Story Time: I first encountered UF, circa the original posting-to-USENET of Twilight, on a machine whose monitor looked like this:

https://az413224.vo.msecnd.net/img/13140/m_13140_21.jpg?x

... that picture doesn't really convey how huge that sucker was. It for damn sure wasn't flat:

http://az413224.vo.msecnd.net/img/13140/m_13140_24.jpg?x

And yeah, it only went up to 1600 horizontal pixels.

>Actually, it's still pretty ridiculous. Resize your browser window.
>:)

I generally do prefer my text block not to be that wide, yes. :)

>Actually, it's still pretty ridiculous. Resize your browser window.
>:)
>

Well, okay, if I must... *sigh*

Typically I run at ... less than 1920, though I'll be damned if I can remember what I run normally. 1024? Generally I'm viewing this site through a remote desktop screen anyway which has no relation to my local monitor resolution, but for bandwidth's sake if nothing else I bet it's 1024, maybe 1280 tops.

Just so happened that yesterday I viewed it from home on my gaming rig, so, yeah. Whoops. :)

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Ah. Well, as they say on Mythbusters, there's your problem. From your initial description, I thought you meant the body text was overrunning the reservation on the left side, where the buttons are, not that the black stripe was being repeated 100 miles off to the right where no browser was ever meant to display. The former would have bespoken some kind of strange problem with the code never before encountered. The latter is just your browser window is too goddamned wide, son. Why when I was your age etc.

More seriously, I'll look into widening the background images sometime. I'm not going to go monkeying with the code as elsewhere suggested, for the simple and compelling reason that I know the square root of fuckall about web coding as she is spoke in this brutal decade. :)

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Not to mention, if you widen the image you don't have to change anything else, otherwise you might well be editing a whole lot of HTML files...

And while I do love my pixels (I'm still pissed that I can't get a 1920x1200 screen anymore - everyone's gone to the 16:9 HD standard of 1920x1080 for some reason or another), even I agree that 1920px wide is a bit much for a browser window, especially when reading text...

Offsides

[...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
-- David Ben Gurion
EPU RCW #π
#include <stdsig.h>

http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/pc-peripherals/monitors/professional/LS24C45KBW/EN

which I'll heartily recommend (and they're still available in Cambridge, Cambs at least).

S.

Perfectly understandable.

I sort of want to offer to modernize the entire site, but the truth is I don't have anything like the amount of free time it would take, and you probably don't want to deal with whatever changes might be needed on your end.

I think we can put this down as another "no-one will need more than 64kB RAM" moment. I certainly never thought when I got my first PC with a huge boxy 800x600 CRT monitor, that I'd have pretty pictures this big to look at... in a monitor I can lift with one hand. ;)

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