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If I put a link in the Shout Box it will stretch out the Box and eventually break (wrap) to the next line in the middle of a word.

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Why is that?

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What browser are you using? IE and Edge I don't believe respect the <wbr> tag; modern browsers like Firefox and Chrome do and should split long strings using the <wbr> tag.


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IE seems to be the one that stretches out the Box. What I don't understand is why it breaks/wraps at all.

Chrome doesn't stretch out the box, but it seems (to me) to break the url in strange places.

Can you splain?

In chrome:

Admin: http://www.electrica
l-contractor.net/for
ums/ubbthreads.php/f
orum_summary.html

Why makes it break like that?

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It breaks to allow it to wrap, so that it doesn't stretch out the chat. What makes it do it? The <wbr> tag is inserted after so many characters which makes tells the browser that it's "ok" to break there.


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Originally Posted by Gizmo
It breaks to allow it to wrap, so that it doesn't stretch out the chat. What makes it do it? The <wbr> tag is inserted after so many characters which makes tells the browser that it's "ok" to break there.
I get that it breaks to allow it to wrap, but it didn't seem to have any rhyme or reason to it that I could see.

with the IE example it goes about 60 characters before it decides it's ok to break. I figured it would either break within the constraints of the container or not at all. confused

The Chrome example, I thought looked like was breaking inconsistently, but now that I look more closely I see there are similar #s of characters in each line. facepalm

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The <wbr> tags are inserted every 20 characters in the shoutbox, your browser decides where would be best to break a long word, based on how wide the sidebar is.


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Further reading, and about as in depth as it really needs to be HTML <wbr> Tag


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well, you know what?

I just realized I'm using Explorer 11 and just checked the box to allow installing new versions automatically.

Any problems with that and I'm coming back... smile


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Originally Posted by id242
ECNet, have a quick read through these links:

Thanks for the info. I know IE is only about 25% of the Browser market right now. It's just an old habit I have to break.

It's probably Embarrassing, but I'm still using Frontpage for my websites. It's not that I don't have other options, It's just that I'm more comfortable with it.
I was used to viewing pages between IE and Netscape and designing for 14" Monitors @ 480 and 640 - so, I'm a little slow to get up to speed.

Anyway, enough rambling... apparently IE 11 doesn't break when it should. I've just consented to an IE update. To be continued... smile


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It depends on who you ask, Wikipedia has a pretty good writeup Usage share of web browsers that shows the data for a couple of different sources.


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Originally Posted by Gizmo
It depends on who you ask, Wikipedia has a pretty good writeup Usage share of web browsers that shows the data for a couple of different sources.
Wow, that really shows IE in the Dumps.

I was going on my own website stats which I thought showed IE at 25% the last time I looked.
I just checked and it's now between 11-12%


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