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

Christian Heilmann codepo8 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 27 11:01:36 CDT 2006


On 6/27/06, Christy Collins <ccollins at loudjoy.com> wrote:
> 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"?

More like "me being lazy and not adding it yet". It is a bit
experimental still. Maybe I should just label it "beta" and go impress
venture capital companies with it?




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