Bug 28857 – Text inside <a> links not wrapping in divs

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: WONTFIX
• Component: CSS

[Jose Blas]

I have noticed that webkit fails to wrap the text inside <a> links in divs. I have a div of 200px and a link and a paragraph inside, the paragraph text will wrap inside the div (i have setup a border) but the link text goes out of the div borders.

See the url for an example.

The example works fine in other browsers.

[Jose Blas]

Created attachment 38839 [details]
snapshot

Here is a snap shot of the bug in action in Safari 4.

[Jose Blas]

Created attachment 38840 [details]
snapshot of firefox behaviour 

here is a snapshot of firefox behaving correctly the same example.

[Jose Blas]

I have added snapshots as attachments.

Thanks

[Yuzo Fujishima]

Created attachment 48609 [details]
Test to see if line is broken at non-space (slash in this case)

[Yuzo Fujishima]

Hmm, I don't see any reasons to change the current behavior.

As far as I searched, the HTML 4 spec doesn't say that a line can be
broken at non-space characters such as '/', except for soft hyphens.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#h-9.3.2

I don't see any reasons from the compatibility point of view either.
Please see the attached "Test to see if line is broken at non-space".

IE 8.0: no line breaks (same as WebKit-based browsers)
FF 3.6: line breaks before '/'
Opera 10.10: line breaks after '/'.

Yuzo