271055 - Long word with no spaces does not wrap in <textarea> (should use hard/emergency wrap like IE)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 92851

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Jack Kan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Long text with no spaces does not wrap in textboxes.  Causes the textbox to show
horizontal scroll bars and makes posting or writing email or whatever much more
difficult.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. type a bunch of characted in a textbox with no spaces
2. no wrapping

1. paste or type a long link into a textbox that has no spaces
2. no wrapping
Actual Results:  
Should wrap.

Expected Results:  
The tooltip should not load at all since the element is no longer there.

Comment 1

[Jack Kan]

> Expected Results:  
> The tooltip should not load at all since the element is no longer there.

Oops, that is not supposed to be there.

Comment 2

[David Betz]

Clarification: this bug is about text area.

overflow: scroll;
overflow: auto;

Might be required for this, but since these do not fix this then perhaps the
real bug might be that overflow is not applying to a text area.

It also does not work with wrap="hard", but that's poor form anyhow.  overflow
should be working, however.

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

So what's the bug? Text only wraps if it has spaces in it. Sounds more like a
feature request to me.

overflow property (basically) affects scrollbars visibility, not wrapping.

Comment 4

[diorser]

See http://pix.nofrag.com/28/7a/50285514a433437d741550b3442b.png to illustrate;

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050909 Firefox/1.4
W2K/SP4

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 268917 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Uri Bernstein]

Related to / duplicate of bug 92851?