Whitespace WordPress Theme and Wrapping Very Long URLs
Very long URLs sometimes burst out of this content area and bleed across to the column on the right. I say sometimes because Firefox seems to do the right thing and wrap a long URL, whereas Chrome and Safari (and I think IE7) do not.
The following page says more about it all and gives a solution that seems to work:
http://perishablepress.com/press/2010/06/01/wrapping-content/
I implemented like this…
In the stylesheet find the Hyperlinks section near the top and add the bold text:
a, a:visited {
color: #017F8D;
text-decoration: none;
white-space: pre; /* CSS 2.0 */
white-space: pre-wrap; /* CSS 2.1 */
white-space: pre-line; /* CSS 3.0 */
white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4-6 */
white-space: -o-pre-wrap; /* Opera 7 */
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; /* Mozilla */
white-space: -hp-pre-wrap; /* HP Printers */
word-wrap: break-word; /* IE 5+ */
}
Note: I first added the bold text to the ‘#content p’ definition so it would apply to any text. However this caused double spacing in listings like the code above and made other posts looked oddly formed with an extra blank link here and there. Using <pre> tags around code could help sort that but it’s extra work and the general extra blank lines here and there would have needed individually sorting too. Ultimately this is a long URLs problem and that’s what I’ve sorted.
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