634455 - Long username breaks questions layout

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(support.mozilla.org :: Questions, task, P3)

Description

[Paul Craciunoiu [:paulc]]

http://grab.by/8Ymd
See screenshot.

Long emails can break out of the layout and that's ugly. Shouldn't be hard to fix.

Comment 1

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

https://github.com/jsocol/kitsune/commit/a8a99658a

This is way better than just fixing the issue of long usernames in questions.

Anywhere on the site where a long string of non-breaking characters (like 99 letters and a space ain't one) any reasonably modern browser (and IE all the way down to 5.5) will give up and break the word.

For example: KB tiles and headings. Question titles. Question bodies. Discussion forum titles/content. Usernames. You name it. This essentially makes any text in a bounded container always break even if there's a word that wouldn't otherwise break.

And it was one line.

Comment 2

[David Tenser [:djst]]

Hooray!

Comment 3

[Rebecca Billings [:rbillings]]

Attachment: long name

Long usernames no longer extend outside the outlines of the page, but a user with the maximum length name has a one character wrap to the third line - seen in the screenshot. If this is trivial or not related to this please make a comment.

Comment 4

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

That's kind of tricky. We could try to expand or contract that but with the right set of letters (lots of 'm' or 'l') it will be possible to do. I say let's just leave that as a miniscule edge case.

Comment 5

[Rebecca Billings [:rbillings]]

Closing as verified