Improved display in Google Groups

I found this browser extension to let you apply formatting codes to any page.  It can be used to apply a monospaced font to Google Groups, which will help viewing tables and even ASCII art that people post.  

I had always thought GG stripped excess white space, like tabs, multiple spaces, blank lines.  But it seems that's not correct, they are all there, just not shown naturally.  I changed my font to Liberation Mono and posted a test case, and all the spaces, tabs and new lines show up. 

If you are interested, the extension is called Style and here is some sample code to use. 

/* ==UserStyle==
@name           groups.google.com - 4/8/2023, 5:16:24 PM
@namespace      github.com/openstyles/stylus
@version        1.0.0
@description    A new userstyle
@author         Me
==/UserStyle== */

@-moz-document url-prefix("https://groups.google.com/g/") {

div[role=region] {
     font-family: Liberation Mono;
     display: block;
     max-width: 50em;
     white-space: pre-wrap;
}
div[role="region"] br {
     display: none;
}

}

To use this with Chrome, I had to strip off the line 

@-moz-document url-prefix("https://groups.google.com/g/") {

and the terminating }

I hope this works for you.

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On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 15:05:25 -0700 (PDT), Rick C
<gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:

>I found this browser extension to let you apply formatting codes to any page.  It can be used to apply a monospaced font to Google Groups, which will help viewing tables and even ASCII art that people post.  
>
>I had always thought GG stripped excess white space, like tabs, multiple spaces, blank lines.  But it seems that's not correct, they are all there, just not shown naturally.  I changed my font to Liberation Mono and posted a test case, and all the spaces, tabs and new lines show up. 
>
>If you are interested, the extension is called Style and here is some sample code to use. 
>
>/* ==UserStyle==
>@name           groups.google.com - 4/8/2023, 5:16:24 PM
>@namespace      github.com/openstyles/stylus
>@version        1.0.0
>@description    A new userstyle
>@author         Me
>==/UserStyle== */
>
>@-moz-document url-prefix("https://groups.google.com/g/") {
>
>div[role=region] {
>     font-family: Liberation Mono;
>     display: block;
>     max-width: 50em;
>     white-space: pre-wrap;
>}
>div[role="region"] br {
>     display: none;
>}
>
>}
>
>To use this with Chrome, I had to strip off the line 
>
>@-moz-document url-prefix("https://groups.google.com/g/") {
>
>and the terminating }
>
>I hope this works for you.


Interesting..

boB