wake

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Hello everyone,

I was wondering why some pages / forums / emails extend off the screen and I have to scroll left and right to read them.

This happens with foxfire but not IE on the same sites. Especially sites that use frames.

Is there some way I can prevent this?

eternally yours,

wake


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koala

What screen resolution are you using? If it's 800x600 try increasing to 1024x768.

martt

It's usually long unbroken strings of text, such as long URLs that cause this. Internet Explorer, or other IE engined browsers, handle these fine. They just 'wrap' the link so that it fits the page. Firefox and Mozilla don't do that though. A long URL can make the page display go right off the edge of the screen. There is a workaround for the problem. It involves making a bookmarklet. To make the bookmarklet:

* Open Firefox.

* Click 'Bookmarks'

* Click 'Manage Bookmarks'

* Click 'File' on the top menu.

* Click 'New Bookmark'

* In the dialogue box that opens, type a name for the bookmarklet (WordWrap or WW perhaps).

* Copy the following code into the 'Location' field (found on the Firefox forum):

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javascript:(function() { var D = document; F(D.body); function F(n) { var u, r, c, x; if (n.nodeType == 3) { u = n.data.search(/\S{45}/); if (u >= 0) { r = n.splitText(u + 45); n.parentNode.insertBefore(D.createElement('wbr'), r); } } else if ((n.tagName != 'STYLE') && (n.tagName != 'SCRIPT')) { for (c = 0; x = n.childNodes[c]; ++c) { F(x); } } } D.body.innerHTML += ' '; })();
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* Click OK.

This will create a bookmarklet in the main Bookmarks menu. Drag it to where you want it. The Bookmarks Toolbar is a convenient place.

Next time you come across a page that goes off the edge of the screen due to a long URL, just click on the bookmarklet. It doesn't work on all pages but it does on most (relies on javascript being enabled in Firefox).