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Re: Weirdly truncated text on Android

Reply #15

Dunno. xD
Actually, I don't remember why we added it. lol
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Re: Weirdly truncated text on Android

Reply #16

Probably something to do with http://aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (at least I don't see why you wouldn't want it to break on http://aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/aaaaaaaaaaa/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa).

That use case would be served by maintaining these:

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display: inline-block;
overflow: hidden;
max-width: 100%;
text-overflow: ellipsis;

The only potential downside is that this might look mildly curious:

http://aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

That'd turn into
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http://aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/etc

Of course in turn that'd break the same-line thing.

I think it would be more elegant to add text-overflow:ellipsis to the post container, but perhaps this whole solution stems from that apparently not having, e.g., a .postarea class in every location (.post in preview).

All in all my main complaint is white-space: nowrap. Details like word-break: break-all could also be interesting but that's just polish. :P