Re: [Htmlvalidator-help] Line numbers while using wrap long lines

[[LoN]Kamikaze <LoN...@gm...>]

Marc Gueury wrote:
> Hi Change,
> 
> It is designed like this. The 2 features :
> - wrap long line
> - line number are incompatible. If one is set the other is disabled.
> 
> There is a good reason behind it. The source code is a HTML page.
> The line numbers are placed in a css "frame" and the source code in his
> own css "frame"
> 
> There is no relation between the 2. Just that the number of lines is the
> same.
> If the wrapping is set to true. I have no way to match the line numbers
> and lines in the source code.
> 
> I tried other algorithms:
> For ex, putting the lines number at the beginning of each line. But it
> did not work well.
> It was a lot too slow and was ugly with wrapping lines.
> 
> So, in short, not possible to fix. And it is intended to work like this
> until that a better algorithm is found.
> Hope it helps,
> 
> Marc
> 

Here is my solution. I find the performance acceptable. The demo
provides buttons to switch between nowrap and normal mode on the fly.