"Change width" not working

[Stephen Tashi]

At the moment, the display of the forum's message windows is too narrow on my PC. Perhaps I'm seeing pages designed for cell phones. The "Change Width" button on the lower left of the page doesn't have any effect. Other sites I visit display normally.

 

[mfb]

It uses almost the full screen width for me. Do you use this URL?

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/change-width-not-working.996104/

 

[Stephen Tashi]

It uses almost the full screen width for me. Do you use this URL?

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/change-width-not-working.996104/

Yes. Earlier in the day, my browser was showing full width message windows.

 

[berkeman]

Yes. Earlier in the day, my browser was showing full width message windows.

Can you post a screenshot of the problem?

 

[Stephen Tashi]

In taking the snapshot, I notice the problem goes away if I use the full screen mode on the Firefox window. However, I prefer not to set the window to full screen. In the less-than-full-screen mode the view looks like this:

 

[mfb]

I can't reproduce the problem with Firefox. When I make the window narrower the first thing that goes away is the space left/right of the content. Only when that space is completely gone the width of the threads decreases. Before it gets too awkward (what you posted is really awkward) the boxes at the right go to the bottom and the main content gets wider again. Make it even smaller and more columns (like the last post and the replies/views) disappear. The forum view looks good at all browser widths for me.

 

[pbuk]

I can't reproduce the problem with Firefox.

I can. The clue is the "110%" zoom factor in the address bar. Try switching to normal zoom (ctrl-0) and it should get better.

@Greg Bernhardt this is likely due to inconsistency between px and em (or rem) settings in the CSS and could be improved.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

We have a fairly sized update planned for Dec. That might fix it, thanks!

 

[Stephen Tashi]

I can. The clue is the "110%" zoom factor in the address bar. Try switching to normal zoom (ctrl-0) and it should get better.

Excellent! That works.

 

[mfb]

I can. The clue is the "110%" zoom factor in the address bar.

I can't reproduce it with 110% either. I get the same behavior as with 100%.

 

[pbuk]

I can't reproduce it with 110% either. I get the same behavior as with 100%.

It wasn't easy - I put it in Responsive View in Development Mode and observed the effect within a small range of display widths around 900-920 pixels.