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comments overflow into sidebar

Caused by this overflowed comment which isn't line-broken.

Your table layout sucks! shakes fist

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    Cannot reproduce on Firefox 35.0. For me, it's line-broken.
    – ProgramFOX
    Jan 18, 2015 at 18:02
  • I repro'd it in Chrome and Safari, so maybe it's webkit specific.
    – bjb568
    Jan 18, 2015 at 18:04
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    Webkit does handle word-breaks differently, and does allow unbreakable words (or bits of words) to extend outside borders. That link doesn't look right anyway. Far better to make a short link with tinyurl or something similar.
    – Andrew Leach Mod
    Jan 18, 2015 at 19:38
  • Happened to me in Chrome, also.
    – Shokhet
    Jan 18, 2015 at 20:42

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The comment in question was made in this posting.

The problem is nothing to do with line breaks. It is due to the fact that Kris failed to include the http:// component of the URL. (NB — I am using Chrome as my browser.)

This is how he/she formatted it:

books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=runaway+&year_start=1800&year_end‌​=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t2%3B%2Crunaway%20%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0‌​%3B%3Brunaway%20slaves%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Brunaway%20slave%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Brunaway%20horse%‌​3B%2Cc0%3B%3Brunaway%20negroes%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Brunaway%20inflation%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bruna‌​way%20match%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Brunaway%20from%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Brunaway%20horses%3B%2Cc0%3B%‌​3Brunaway%20and%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Brunaway%20servant%3B%2Cc0

Appended as a comment below is the same link, this time including the http:// prefix.

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  • This is how the link should have been formatted:
    – Erik Kowal
    Jan 19, 2015 at 3:44
  • > Ngrams not found: runaway horse%‌​3B,c0, [runaway horse%‌​3B,c0], c0;%‌​3Brunaway and, [c0;%‌​3Brunaway and]
    – bjb568
    Jan 19, 2015 at 3:46
  • @bjb568 - But the link in my comment actually works; the fact that the Ngram tool doesn't find the search terms isn't relevant to your question as posed.
    – Erik Kowal
    Jan 19, 2015 at 3:48
  • I think this is the desired link.
    – bjb568
    Jan 19, 2015 at 3:50
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    Aha — I notice that your link starts with https:// and not http:// I think that clears up the conundrum. :)
    – Erik Kowal
    Jan 19, 2015 at 3:53
  • +1 so I don't have to see this question being bumped again by "community".
    – Mari-Lou A
    Jun 18, 2015 at 11:04

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