[thelist] Firefox doesn't wrap long email addresses?
Christy Collins
ccollins at loudjoy.com
Tue Jun 27 10:35:42 CDT 2006
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
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