Strange. Alright, a few questions then:

* Is this the only file that this happens to? Do other outputs from this tool produce the same sort of error?

* Do you see any javascript errors in the console when attempting the viewing? (how to here: http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/77337)

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Ryan G <ngsbioinformatics@gmail.com> wrote:

The format is listed as tabular when I view details.

In fact, in the preview window in the History Pane, it recognizes there are columns and that the data is in fact tabular, but when displaying, this isn't the case.   

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Carl Eberhard <carlfeberhard@gmail.com> wrote:

Ok - if it's not zebra striped and it's word wrapping, then it's somehow not displaying as tabular - you're correct.

If you click on the 'View details' button of that dataset (the 'i' with the circle around it shown when the dataset is expanded in the right hand side of the 'Analyze Data' page), what does it list the 'Format' as? 'tabular'? (This is also listed as 'Format' in the expanded view itself).

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Ryan G <ngsbioinformatics@gmail.com> wrote:

Odd because I have another tabular file that is displayed with every other line highlighted and there is not word-wrapping on the file.  However the file that has the type tabular and displayed as text is word-wrapped with no lines highlighted.  I suspect its not actually recognized as tabular or is being overridden where.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Carl Eberhard <carlfeberhard@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, Ryan

Galaxy displays tabular data in the browser using a <table> tag. It *sounds like* the behavior you see (columns losing space between one another when narrowing the window and getting more space as you expand the window) would reflect that.

Carl

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Ryan G <ngsbioinformatics@gmail.com> wrote:

The file is an output from a tool and in the tool's xml, its format is tabular.

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 3:43 AM, Björn Grüning <bjoern.gruening@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Ryan,

is it recognised as 'tabular'?

Ciao,
Bjoern

Am 27.10.2015 um 04:42 schrieb Ryan G:
> Hi - I have a tools that generates a tab-delimited text file as output.
> when I click the eye icon to view the data, all the fields are compressed
> as if there were no tabs.  If I expand the history view, the little preview
> window shows the contents as tabbed.  I've verified that the spaces are
> indeed '\t' tab characters.  Why would Galaxy not display this file as a
> tab-delimited file?
>
>
>

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