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basic’s picture

I can confirm the same error with Safari and Chrome on OSX 10.6.

c4rl’s picture

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This is due to long words in certain table cells. See attached.

There are certain CSS properties (such as word-wrap) which seem plausible to help with this, but after some experimentation they don't seem well-supported for table elements, at least not in Safari.

Firefox seems to handle this natively.

I will continue to investigate whether there is a suitable CSS-based solution.

Other possible fixes:

* Move right column into left column so that when the table blows out it doesn't overlap anything on the right
* Truncate long strings
* Punctuate long strings with <wbr> tags

The first of these requires no client or server overhead.

c4rl’s picture

Title: IE8 block overlapping in forum » Table column overflow in IE8 and Safari due to long strings

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manuel garcia’s picture

Title: Table column overflow in IE8 and Safari due to long strings » Table column overflows right sidebar due to long strings
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This is also happening in FF 3.6.10. At least on this forum: http://drupal.org/forum/22

manuel garcia’s picture

Title: Table column overflows right sidebar due to long strings » Table column overflows right sidebar due to long strings in forums
c4rl’s picture

Title: Table column overflows right sidebar due to long strings in forums » Table column overflows right sidebar due to long strings

@Manuel Garcia, confirmed.

Changing the title back since this issue it will exist in any circumstance where there exists a table and a right-column, not just forum pages.

lisarex’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (cannot reproduce)

I think this has been fixed. Closing, but if it's not been, please reopen and assign to the Bluecheese queue.