251925 - Line containing multiple links does not wrap around - goes off page

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[bugzilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707

The line of links on the top of the page at www.edwardgoldsmith.com does not
wrap around. This page has been verified HTML compliant. It does wrap around on IEX.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. just bring the page up
2.
3.

Comment 1

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

Those links specify nowrap.  The whitespace around the "|" is   which is
not supposed to wrap.  Therefore the browser has no location it is allowed to
wrap around, so IE is behaving incorrectly.

Comment 2

[Josh Birnbaum]

This only happens in quirks mode.  Changing the DTD to 4.0 Strict shows the
desired layout

Comment 3

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

I believe this is a dupe of 95067, based on the rules here:
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr14/

Comment 4

[bugzilla]

Having submitted this bug, I'm no longer sure it is one after reading comments -
at least not in the way I originally thought. Perhaps more a case of
over-faithful  rendering. I have now changed the separator string between the
keywords in the header to "&nbsp | &nbsp" and now it wraps the line as intended. 

Oliver Tickell.

Comment 5

[bugzilla]

The bug is actually slightly different to how originally described - having 
carried out the corrections suggested by comment #1, another problem has 
emerged: the line does wrap around, however it does so too 'late' so that the 
line overspills the right margin of its 'container'.

Oliver Tickell.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Both www.tfx.org.uk and www.edwardgoldsmith.com share a similar design and don't show non-breaking menus or text overlap when resized in bonech/minefield from today. -> WFM.