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Weirdly truncated text on Android

Where's the value of having the last character chopped off here?

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What browser?
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Currently Chrome.
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arg... I cannot test it because Chrome doesn't want to work in the emulator... :-\
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That assuming I have a smartphone. ;)
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Get with the times ema!!
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NOEZ!!
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That is technically still a bug.
The problem is that links are cut to avoid them overflowing.
The overflow happens because of the white-space: nowrap;.

Why do we need the white-space: nowrap?
If we can get rid of it, we would be able to remove the overflow:hidden as well and have the links span on multiple lines.
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I imagine it was added because in some edge cases you might get stuff like

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Lalala some text [two
words]

Which would make for an easier to hit target if they weren't split up. However, I don't think that's worth making long links more worthless.

PS I don't think this happens quite the way it's shown in the OP? It looks to me like links just won't exceed one line, but they'll gladly take up the whole line.

 

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Right, and I definitely consider that undesirable, but putting some words in front of it doesn't seem to make it do that particular extra-bad thing. "In fact, it may very well shorten the text inside an a tag quite a bit, of course you need to to have quite a bunch of text to have a taste of it without shrinking way too much the window."

What I see is:
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"
In fact, blabla…
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Not:
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thing. "In fact…"
like on the screenshot in the OP.


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Well yeah. Like what it does if you get rid of all the weird non-standard styling. :P


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So we want to drop all of the a.bbc_link mumbo jumbo and have a simple word-wrap: break-word;