Issue with "How to structure a web form": …

MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Forms/How_to_structure_a_web_form

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

This is a suggestion for an improvement. In the code block sections there is often overflow content which causes a horizontal scroll bar to appear at the bottom of the block. Would it be possible to make the code block sections wider? It would be easier to type the code if I didn’t have to repeatedly scroll down and adjust the horizontal bar.

Specific section or headline?

Step 5 of ‘Active learning: building a form structure’ is a good example of this.

What did you expect to see?

Did you test this? If so, how?

MDN Content page report details

• Folder: en-us/learn/forms/how_to_structure_a_web_form
• MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Forms/How_to_structure_a_web_form
• GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/master/files/en-us/learn/forms/how_to_structure_a_web_form/index.html
• Report started: 2020-12-17T16:16:43.657Z

[schalkneethling]

Problem is that we don’t have a URL for the content inside the <pre> tag.

Crazy idea, but couldn’t the content of <pre> be read into a Blob which then gets piped into createObjectURL which is used to open a new window?

It probably could, but I guess the larger question is whether the end-user benefit will justify the engineering and maintenance effort to make this possible across all pages.

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I know we wanted to get to something actionable so, how about we implement the suggestion here https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/2187#issuecomment-759278250, instrument it, and have a look after 30 days or so to get an idea of how many people use the feature.

[peterbe]

3 things going on here:

1. Ability to see the whole of the inline code example
2. Ability to see the whole of a live sample
3. Ability to change the display/stretch of an inline code example.

This issue is a mess (but full of useful discussions and thought-jots). Can someone distill it down to 1 thing or close it?