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JayNeely on Aug 19, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.yc...

Text-wrapping, or text scroll-boxes, for overflowing code.

Example of broken HN page here: https://qht.co/item?id=279251 because of overflowing code here: https://qht.co/item?id=279640

ivank on Aug 23, 2008 | [–]

I think all this needs is overflow:auto and a max-width. I've been solving this problem with a Greasemonkey script.

kf on Sept 29, 2008 | [–]

I believe this is fixed in Firefox 2 but for some reason the fix doesn't work in FF3.

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