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Bug 70410 - Avoid breaking text in the middle of a word
Avoid breaking text in the middle of a word
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
MultimediaViewer (Other open bugs)
master
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2014-09-04 19:09 UTC by Matthew Flaschen
Modified: 2014-09-04 21:18 UTC (History)
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Description Matthew Flaschen 2014-09-04 19:09:33 UTC 
The description (and other text if applicable) should preferably not be broken in the middle of a word.  Instead of.

"The tiger inhabits the ra..."

it should be:

"The tiger inhabits the rain..."

I'm not sure if this can be done in pure CSS.
Comment 1 Tisza Gergő 2014-09-04 21:18:31 UTC 
It can't (that would have been text-overflow: ellipsis-word which was in the CSS3 working draft for a while but did not make it into the current version). It's doable in Javascript but truncating rich text in Javascript is not a trivial task. (Even with text-overflow there can be nasty surprises, see for example bug 67896.)

At some point we planned to use $.dotdotdot for this, but it never got done.
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