Forum:Dotted-line text box appears at random around text

My search terms may have been to vague to see if anyone else has had this problem, so if there's already a thread, please don't mind telling me where to go :D

This happens with almost every page I create: some of the text, seemingly at random, will be contained in a dotted or dashed line text box which carries the text off screen so that anyone trying to read it will have to use a horizontal scroll bar. Sometimes the box appears around long sentances, sometimes short ones, sometimes entire paragraphs or sub-sections. The only way to get rid of it is to delete the space between the boxed text and unboxed text which unfortunately combines paragraphs I would rather not combine. There is no code around the text when I look in the codeview, and none of the text has any code or links or pictures which may have messed up and caused this. Using "nowiki" worked but pushed text together that I would prefer remained on separate lines, and this would remove any code I may want to include so I hope this isn't the only solution.

So far I've been able to keep the box out by re-editing and re-editing (and re-editing) over and over until I get it to go away, though often, like I said, it results in combining text that I would prefer stay separate.

Here is an example where the text box appeared at random around lines of text in a list. Notice that long sentances are sometimes unaffected meaning that it's not trying to fit long strings of text in a small space or whatever this text box was originally intended for.

http://synchromystic.wikia.com/wiki/File:Wikia_error_textbox.jpg

The image is soo small to show it, but the text boxes skipped a few lines of text and appeared at random among several of the lines of text in this list. No code showed up in the wiki code editor.

So, anyone else seen this before? Got any tips?


 * To prevent this, remove any spaces between the start of the line, and the first bit of text. Make sure there is a blank line between each paragraph. Also, if you want an indent, add one (or more) colon(s) before the text.  Quartic ~ insanity is a virtue  |  Talk  02:18, 28 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes, ViolatoR, that dotted line is part of a normal wiki behavior. Having a space (or more) at the start of a line mean someting perticular to the sofware like and  around links.
 * You can read this help page for more infos. — TulipVorlax 03:04, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, if those spaces are supposed to be indents, use a colon ( : ). &mdash; Balistic