Fixed width font for the code tag

[Santa's little helper]

Code looks ugly and is harder to read if it does not appear in fixed width font.

[jasonlambert]

could you explain more?

[Santa's little helper]

For example

wwww
....

Although both lines in the code have 4 characters, one appears much wider
than the other.Or at least that's how it looks on my screen.I'm saying
the choice of fonts should be such that both lines should have the same
width because otherwise it makes code harder to read.

I don't know much about fonts but I'm assuming that there are fonts
where every character has the same width and it would appear as such
on every computer which has these fonts.Using Kedit , Courier fonts have this
property.

[Xenon]

There are quite a few fonts that do have a set width, for example "Lucida Console". Probably anything with console in the name is a good chice for code editing.

[Santa's little helper]

Actually I viewed this thread on a different computer and the two lines in
the code had the same width.So perhaps it has to do with my browser's (Firefox)
settings and not the page ? I was assuming it is the page which tells the browser
which fonts to use.

[puntmuts]

Settings. Works fine here on firefox.

I use Lucida Typewriter font for Monospace fonts.

[jasonlambert]

It displays fixed-width for me in FF.

I've added Lucida Console into the CSS file as a font option for the code blocks, if that doesnt make any difference to you go to Edit -> Preferences -> General -> Fonts & Colors in FireFox, and choose a different font for Monospace text.

J.