Column width in thread view off?

Hi,

for the first time ever today I spotted a column width glitch?
See attached file.


Cheers,
Tink

I've seen this many times before as well. I believe it only happens when a visible attribute of a user's profile (SN, distro, location, etc.) exceeds the maximum length to keep it in the "normal"-sized sidebar.

I hope that made sense… :-\

EDIT: I'm pretty sure there's a user here by the SN of "tiredofbilkyyaforallican" (or something like that ), and the length of that name alone is enough to push the sidebar column out wider than normal.

Originally Posted by MrCode I believe it only happens when a visible attribute of a user's profile (SN, distro, location, etc.) exceeds the maximum length to keep it in the "normal"-sized sidebar.

I think this problem only occurs when the text string is excessively long and there are no obvious separating points. eg, if I was a newb and put my distro as 'idontknowwhatfsckingdistrotouseandthatswhyipostedhere', that would cause this problem, but if I entered that as 'I don't know what fscking distro to use, and that's why I posted here' the software would find split points, and it would split that over multiple lines, in a sensible way.

PS; If this is a real problem (as opposed to a general, 'isn't that an interesting thing', observation), I am prepared to try something like the above, to prove the principle.

This is a known issue. In extreme cases we've typically manually added breaks, although it's something we'll likely programmatically address in the future.

--jeremy

My observation is that the culprit fields, in order, are:

1. Distro
2. Location
3. Name

1 & 2 can be solved programmatically -- make commas, slashes, vert. bars, etc. new line breakpoints.

I think Name is more complicated because most of us don't know that spaces are allowed in our LQ user names. Perhaps a reminder on the sign up page. Perhaps a stronger reminder triggered when a proposed name exceeds the normal allowed column width.