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Anton Geraschenko comments on "Long words in comments" (3361)

2010-02-23T21:31:58-08:00

I think this is the same as webkit bug 25622.

Anton Geraschenko comments on "Long words in comments" (3359)

2010-02-23T21:14:08-08:00

I did a little more looking in to it, and it seems like the long "word" did indeed mess up the whole table of comments. It seems like it really is just that webkit browsers don't know how to use the word-wrap property correctly. Sorry.

At least non-webkit browsers display comments in MO properly. The same is not true for S[OFU], since they refuse to set "word-wrap: break-word;" in css for some reason.

Anton Geraschenko comments on "Long words in comments" (3348)

2010-02-23T17:23:53-08:00

Chrome seems to be completely ignoring the width property of the table. The div containing it is set to width 660px, and the table is set to 100% width. But if I tweak the table width using the developer tools, it doesn't do anything. On other pages, when I tweak the width, it responds appropriately.

Anton Geraschenko comments on "Long words in comments" (3347)

2010-02-23T17:20:05-08:00

@Harald: sorry, I just edited my comment as you were posting your response. I think the word-wrap property is behaving properly, but the table containing the comments is computed as being 842px wide instead of the usual 660px. Even the comments with regular prose are flowing "under" the sidebar.

Harald Hanche-Olsen comments on "Long words in comments" (3346)

2010-02-23T17:18:09-08:00

The word-wrap property is, as far as I understand, a candidate for inclusion in CSS 3. It is not present in CSS 2. Some browsers may not obey it.

Anton Geraschenko comments on "Long words in comments" (3345)

2010-02-23T16:44:19-08:00

Something must have changed. It used to be that the following css forced "long words" to be broken if they spilled over the edge

.post-text, .comments 
{
    word-wrap: break-word;
}

No, that isn't right ... the word wrapping is working properly, but for some reason, the table containing the comments is now wider than the div that contains it. I'll look into it. Weirdly, it seems like the table is too wide only on that particular thread. It also seems to render correctly in Firefox 3.5.8 on linux, but not in Chrome.

Harry Gindi comments on "Long words in comments" (3343)

2010-02-23T15:54:58-08:00

Opera 10.5 βετα on windows displays it fine.

Edit: Also displays fine in Opera on Linux.

Benjamin Weiss comments on "Long words in comments" (3342)

2010-02-23T15:48:00-08:00

I see the same problem running Safari on OSX.

rwbarton comments on "Long words in comments" (3340)

2010-02-23T15:24:35-08:00

In the comments on this question there is a long "word" (string of characters without spaces), which causes all the comments to be very wide, extending under the sidebar on the right and beyond. It would be nicer if the width of the comments was fixed, and only that single line overflowed.

Oh, I'm using Chrome on Linux, in case that matters.