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Comment by dshields1 | Hacker News Reader

That label is so long it’s breaking the HN front page layout for me on mobile.

Yup. @dang, can you fix this?

In principle yes, but I tried in 4 (edit: 5) browsers and couldn't reproduce the problem, and it's late here and I'm running out of steam. So you may have to suffer overnight. Sorry about that.

Edit: ok, thanks to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_character_property#Whi... I put in a bunch of &NegativeMediumSpace;. I hope that fixes it because I need to sign off now. If it isn't fixed, it would be helpful if someone would email hn@ycombinator.com so we see that in the morning. Short term memory does not survive the firehose.

Thanks, it’s not a huge issue! I’m able to see the issue with safari on my iPhone, FYI.

Happened for me on iOS 13 if it helps. Font stays the normal size but you have to scroll right. If you zoom out, it’s a bit harder to read but not bad.

Firefox and Firefox Focus on Android present the same issue.

It's reproducible for me when viewing the home page in Chrome 75 on Android 9 (Pixel 2 XL).

It probably shouldn't be visible in title tag: https://i.imgur.com/a1RLCt0.png

You're right.

HN should add the CSS rule "word-wrap:break-word". In fact this rule should almost always be the default for text that might contain excessively long words (such as user-submitted text on forums).

(...Or german)

Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

1: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rindfleischetikettierungs%C3... - check out the voice version!

You've got to love the "abbreviations" for these laws.

RflEttÜAÜG

I like that better than the American way of inventing stupid names, so that the acronym is "cute".

You should use  or <wbr> between wordparts for 100% pedantically correct word breaking.

Same here. I notice it's truncated in the comment dialog, why not also the main page?

I've attempted to fix it. Details at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20352144.

Thanks. That fixed it for me (chrome on Android)

That's why it's broken! Was so confused

I was wondering what was going on!

Also broke hckrnews.com on mobile.

I was wondering what was going on there.

So that explains it!

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