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

[Christy Collins]

On Jun 27, 2006, at 7:13 AM, Christian Heilmann wrote:

>> 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/
>

Christian - I referred someone to this script recently and couldn't  
find it on your home page - fished around my bookmarks to find it -  
was wondering if it was somehow "obsolete, unsupported, or rubbish"?

-C