[thelist] Firefox doesn't wrap long email addresses?

Christian Heilmann codepo8 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 27 06:13:32 CDT 2006


> Well it's a fact of life, unfortunately :)
>
> "john-c-doe-is-my-email-address at example.email.com" is a single word and it
> is "unbreakable".
>
> just like "johncdoeismyemailaddressexampleemailcom" is.
>
> It will not wrap because firefox (or any browser that renders the box
> "properly" --which means anything but MSIE--) cannot wrap it. It cannot
> simply find where to break the word and displays the word as a whole.
>
> You can
>
> 1. either increase the width of the container div
> 2. or add and "overflow" attribute to the css class of the div.

or force cutting down on size with scripting:
http://onlinetools.org/tools/shortlinks/

Why would you want to wrap an email anyways? That'll make it a real
annoyance to copy and paste it.


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