253543 - No hyphenation at all

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 218580

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Jacob FM]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

The browser doesn't hyphenate.
Example:
blablablabla/blablablablablablablabla
will make tables and divs stretch, when these are more narrow than the width of
a (non-hyphenated) piece of text.
Makes layout almost impossible.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a html-table or div with a width
2. enter a very long word, or for instance a long url
3. watch the table or div stretch



Expected Results:  
Hypenate

Comment 1

[Benedikt Kantus]

I'm not sure, but isn't this exactly the way HTML is supposed to work?

Comment 2

[Jacob FM]

Nope, html is not supposed to work like that.
Example:
A page has a left column containing a menu. Lets say the column has a width of
140px, set by css:width and perhaps even css:max-width (or just plain old
[deprecated] html attributes).
If suddenly a very long word, like the name of a welsh village ;o), appears in
the menu, the column will - displayed in Mozilla - stretch beyond the desired
width, because Mozilla can't figure out to hyphenate the 'mother.
Whereas displayed in the (in so many other ways very faulty) IE, the word wil be
hyphenated, thus leaving the width of the column unharmed.
   The problem may seem exotic and irrelevant if you don't work professionally
with visual design, but if you do, it's a major partykiller.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is already filed.  Please find the original and mark this duplicate.

Comment 4

[Jacob FM]

Maybe there's a dupe, but I didn't find it.
Sorry if I ruined somebody's day.

Comment 5

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 218580 ***