Using IE as my browser I cannot use a codebox and have blank lines!

Here are some test examples from a post I made earlier, in each case I have pasted into this posting exactly the same text:

code

codebox

quote

text

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

;Change location of My Documents

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]
"Personal"=hex(2):44,00,3a,00,5c,00,70,00,72,00,6f,00,66,00,69,00,6c,00,65,00,\
  73,00,5c,00,25,00,55,00,53,00,45,00,52,00,4e,00,41,00,4d,00,45,00,25,00,5c,\
  00,4d,00,69,00,6a,00,6e,00,20,00,44,00,6f,00,63,00,75,00,6d,00,65,00,6e,00,\
  74,00,65,00,6e,00,00,00
"My Video"=hex(2):44,00,3a,00,5c,00,70,00,72,00,6f,00,66,00,69,00,6c,00,65,00,\
  73,00,5c,00,25,00,55,00,53,00,45,00,52,00,4e,00,41,00,4d,00,45,00,25,00,5c,\
  00,4d,00,69,00,6a,00,6e,00,20,00,56,00,69,00,64,00,65,00,6f,00,27,00,73,00,\
  00,00
"My Music"=hex(2):44,00,3a,00,5c,00,70,00,72,00,6f,00,66,00,69,00,6c,00,65,00,\
  73,00,5c,00,25,00,55,00,53,00,45,00,52,00,4e,00,41,00,4d,00,45,00,25,00,5c,\
  00,4d,00,69,00,6a,00,6e,00,20,00,4d,00,75,00,7a,00,69,00,65,00,6b,00,00,00
"My Pictures"=hex(2):44,00,3a,00,5c,00,70,00,72,00,6f,00,66,00,69,00,6c,00,65,\
  00,73,00,5c,00,25,00,55,00,53,00,45,00,52,00,4e,00,41,00,4d,00,45,00,25,00,\
  5c,00,4d,00,69,00,6a,00,6e,00,20,00,41,00,66,00,62,00,65,00,65,00,6c,00,64,\
  00,69,00,6e,00,67,00,65,00,6e,00,00,00
"Favorites"=hex(2):44,00,3a,00,5c,00,70,00,72,00,6f,00,66,00,69,00,6c,00,65,\
  00,73,00,5c,00,25,00,55,00,53,00,45,00,52,00,4e,00,41,00,4d,00,45,00,25,00,\
  5c,00,46,00,61,00,76,00,6f,00,72,00,69,00,65,00,74,00,65,00,6e,00,00,00
"Desktop"=hex(2):44,00,3a,00,5c,00,70,00,72,00,6f,00,66,00,69,00,6c,00,65,00,\
  73,00,5c,00,25,00,55,00,53,00,45,00,52,00,4e,00,41,00,4d,00,45,00,25,00,5c,\
  00,42,00,75,00,72,00,65,00,61,00,75,00,6c,00,62,00,6c,00,61,00,64,00,00,00



I really do hope that showed my problem, otherwise I'll look like an id***!

Everything looks fine here at first glance. Your codebox has blank lines.

Looks good to me with Opera. Is this an IE rendering issue?

IE7 has no problem. Nor does KMeleon.

The quote box misses out on a line return in firefox, (ers]"Personal"=hex(2):44,00), but everything else is fine using that browser. In my IE7, which I used to create the post of which I speak, there are no blank lines in the codebox version, which are obviously critical in a reg file and the same line on the quote box is rendered incorrectly. It places the line return after hex(2): instead of afterFolders]

I'll take a look at it later in Opera, but is there some sort of explanation for this behaviour.

Yes, indeed, there is a problem for quote but afaik it is not new and maybe done on purpose.

But no problem with the codebox.

That codebox has no line returns like the others do.

I must concur with Tarun, the PNG attachment clearly fails to show the 'blank lines' and further highlights my issue.

I know I've got nowhere with this problem before and I can live with it, just about, but in this particular case, reg syntax requires the blank line. The only way for me to therefore enter reg code 'with relative safety' is to use a method which wastes board real-estate.

Indeed, did not pay attention to that. I was searching a big ugly error.

Btw does reg file really need an extra blank line ?

The codebox has the extra lines when I view it here in Opera 9.10.

Click to see

In IE7 however, the empty lines are indeed missing. I'm guessing that this is an IPB bug...