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  Kevin Rose June 4th, 2008 @ 11:28 AM

  • → Assigned user changed from “” to “Michael Hartl”
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  Michael Hartl June 4th, 2008 @ 12:52 PM

  This is a little trickier than it looks, since it can't be done in CSS. We need something equivalent to the wordwrap function in PHP, which Rails doesn't have by default. (Rails has word_wrap, but unfortunately it's not quite the same thing---it won't cut a word on anything but whitespace.)

  This ticket is a good candidate for an Insoshi community member contribution; I'll see if I can rope someone in. :-)

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  Michael Hartl June 4th, 2008 @ 01:35 PM

  Actually, it's ever harder than I thought; if you want to allow formatted text, you have to parse it and make sure you're not breaking, say, an href inside a link. The problem then reduces to parsing general XHTML---not good.

  A better solution might be to handle it in the browser by creating scroll bars if the text is too long. I think jQuery can do this. We'll definitely take a look at it.

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  Michael Hartl June 17th, 2008 @ 04:34 PM

  • → Milestone cleared.

  As a stopgap, there's a CSS trick to suppress the rendering of letters that run too far. I think that's good enough for now. (Even Facebook uses this solution in places.)

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  Michael Hartl June 17th, 2008 @ 04:36 PM

  • → Milestone changed from “” to “Miscellaneous polish”
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  Michael Hartl September 16th, 2008 @ 10:36 AM

  • → State changed from “new” to “hold”
  • → Tag changed from “” to “bugs css design user-interface”