By Gabriel R. on

It's a fairly popular site, with a few thousand active users.

At one point, some smart-a** thought it would be funny to try to break the template design with too many comment thread levels.

See it the result here http://www.franta-romania.com/node/3358?page=2

:-)

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matt_harrold’s picture

matt_harrold commented

It is only four levels deep, many conversations end up with deeper nesting than that.

I saw at-least one post on the Drupal forum that lasted over a year and produced half a screen of whitespace in the left margin.

Perhaps your visitor thought he "had" to use the reply link.

Rob Cottingham’s picture

Rob Cottingham commented

They're posting a lengthy unbroken string of characters. That's what's blowing out your template (which is actually holding up nicely, all things considered). Have you thought of adding an "overflow: hidden" or "overflow: scroll" attribute to your CSS file?

And has anyone come across a solution for automatically wrapping long character strings like that one? It doesn't just arise with nuisance posts; well-intentioned folks posting lengthy URLs can also make a mess.

Gabriel R.’s picture

Gabriel R. commented

Well, I actually joined the anarchy and added the extra-long word myself, just for kicks :-)

The cause is pretty obvious, and nobody really minds the effect.

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greenreaper
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I recently saw discussion legitimately break the twenty-indent level on a somewhat contentious story - on the plus side, it inspired me to redesign the comment layout so that it would fit!