Some posts get cut off on the right
Posted 12-03-2008 at 03:04:55 PM by pennywatcher
Have you ever seen a post on HCW that looked like it was supposed to be extra wide, but the right side was lopped off?
Are you using Firefox? Does the post have a long URL in the signature? Does the post have a string in the title or body that has no spaces in it like "AK,AL,AR,GA,MI,NE...".
It's a bug. I don't know of a way to get around it other than resizing the Firefox window, temporarily switching to IE, or pestering the specific user to change something.
What happens is that when a user has a long string without spaces in their post, Firefox won't split it to take up multiple lines, but also doesn't make the display box any larger. All the rest of the text thinks it has a huge box in which to wrap, but only the left portion is displayed.
If the problem is a long URL, the user needs to do this so that instead of the URL being displayed, only a word or phrase is displayed. If the problem is a normal string without spaces, the user needs to add a few spaces so Firefox knows where it can break the line.
Are you using Firefox? Does the post have a long URL in the signature? Does the post have a string in the title or body that has no spaces in it like "AK,AL,AR,GA,MI,NE...".
It's a bug. I don't know of a way to get around it other than resizing the Firefox window, temporarily switching to IE, or pestering the specific user to change something.
What happens is that when a user has a long string without spaces in their post, Firefox won't split it to take up multiple lines, but also doesn't make the display box any larger. All the rest of the text thinks it has a huge box in which to wrap, but only the left portion is displayed.
If the problem is a long URL, the user needs to do this so that instead of the URL being displayed, only a word or phrase is displayed. If the problem is a normal string without spaces, the user needs to add a few spaces so Firefox knows where it can break the line.
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