Why do some Quiz question fit text on one line and others not.

Why do some Quiz question fit text on one line and others not.

by Mark Jones -
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Fellow Moodlers, good morning.

I'm currently working on a course relating to Sepsis, and its early detection in both children and adults.  

Upon creating the questions in the bank, along with a category everything appeared to look fine.  I've created 10 multiple choice questions and to my knowledge set them all up correctly.  Keeping it very simple. 

I'm using Web Browser Google Chrome (latest edition) & Windows 10 Professional 64 Bit.

The issue I am having is that some questions text when being reviewed as a learner and as part of the quiz, are being spread over two lines whilst for the most part everything else is fitting on one even though the lines are rather short.  

I wondered if you could advise me of where I am going wrong and how to fix it please.  Images attached to aid understanding. 

Quiz Questions - Why are some on one line whilst others are on two lines.


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Re: Why do some Quiz question fit text on one line and others not.

by Marcus Green -
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Did you paste in some of the text rater than type it in. If so try creating a new duplicate question but type in the text rather than paste it in and see if the issue goes away. Post here if that fixes it
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Re: Why do some Quiz question fit text on one line and others not.

by Rick Jerz -
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You have provided an image of how these questions are shown.  Consider opening two browsers, and comparing these two questions, side by side,  when editing them from the question bank.  Give us screenshots.

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Re: Why do some Quiz question fit text on one line and others not.

by Dominique Bauer -
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You may want to take a look at the HTML code of the choices. To do this, edit your multiple-choice question and scroll to Choice 1, Choice 2, etc., in the Answers section. Assuming you are using the Atto HTML editor, click the "Show more buttons - Show/hide advanced buttons" button, then click the "HTML" button.

The text of the answer is enclosed by either <p></p>, <span></span>, <div></div> or some other tags, or no tags. Depending on the specific CSS on your site, these tags may or may not be appropriate here. Normally, <p></p>, <span></span> or no tags should work.

Examine the HTML code of the choices that are displayed correctly and use the same tags, or no tags, for the other choices.

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Re: Why do some Quiz question fit text on one line and others not.

by Marcus Green -
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Dominique's answer expands on the idea behind mine.
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Re: Why do some Quiz question fit text on one line and others not.

by Dominique Bauer -
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Hello Marcus,

Absolutely! Probably for the sake of brevity, I failed to start my message by saying that I was just expanding on your idea.

Your answer was appropriate and excellent. I guess you were trying to make things simple for Mark. My goal was simply to give additional information that could also help other users.



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