URL: <https://savannah.nongnu.org/support/?111307>
Summary: Savannah should automatically line-break long URLs
in comments
Group: Savannah Administration
Submitter: barx
Submitted: Mon 25 Aug 2025 11:55:46 PM CDT
Category: Savannah trackers - bugs, tasks, etc.
Priority: 5 - Normal
Severity: 1 - Wish
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
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Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
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Date: Mon 25 Aug 2025 11:55:46 PM CDT By: Dave <barx>
The last line of http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60927#comment10 is a long URL
that, in some browsers, causes a significant horizontal scrollbar to be added
to the page, hindering readability of all the ticket's comments.
Outside of verbatim blocks, savannah should insert the <wbr> HTML tag at
strategic points in the displayed text of a URL, to allow the browser to break
the line, while leaving the link target unaltered so clicking the link works
as expected. (This should be done for all URLs, rather than just especially
long ones, because on narrow displays such as mobile screens, it takes a lot
less to overrun the page width.)
Savannah already detects URLs in the plain text of a comment (again, outside
verbatim blocks), as it makes them clickable. So improving their visual
formatting could be added to the processing it does when it recognizes a URL.
(I recommend <wbr> over the nominally equivalent Unicode U+200B ZERO WIDTH
SPACE character because the latter may be included in the selection when text
is selected, rendering the URL invalid upon paste. The HTML tag leaves no
trace in selected text.)
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