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What would that do?
by mostlystatic 14y ago
What would that do?
- kbrackbill 14y agoA bunch of stuff, but the important thing here is that it clips things above and below each line so things like this can't overlap other lines
- lorettahe 14y agoIt doesn't actually cap the line. It caps the block. Sometimes the block can extend to multiple lines. http://i.imgur.com/698dzMo.png http://i.imgur.com/698dzMo.png After trying with the css suggested here on Google inside Chrome, the problametic characters don't have the top going across too high like originally, but it gets capped on the top of the first line of the paragraph, instead of the line the character is actually at. That said, I'm not sure how to solve this though.
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoThe thing is to avoid overlapping with other elements, if they want to ruin their own description/comment so be it. But just for the technical challenge you could do something like this in Javascript to chop every individual special character: string.split("").map(function(a){ return /[a-z0-9\s]/i.test(a) ? a : '<span class="s_char">' + a + '</span>'; }).join(""); And apply the mentioned CSS to the "s_char" class.
- windsurfer 14y agoOh god please no.
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoexplain.
- sukuriant 14y agoIt's a huge hammer and a considerably larger webpage footprint just so that a type of character isn't allowed to run amok, something that's not going to happen anyway in the vast majority of cases.
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoWe have very different definitions of "huge hammer", in any decent modern browser (Chrome, Firefox, IE9) it takes less than 10ms to apply the mentioned code in 20 texts (using the linked 10 Google results as an example).
- sukuriant 14y agoIt also puts every single special character into its own span. That may negatively affect programs that trust HTML for copy-paste, for example Open Office, Microsoft Word (I think?), some IM clients, some text editors, etc. Doesn't seem worth it in the general case. That said, if those sorts of things bother an individual, they could run that on the page themselves, I suppose, so it's good for that :)
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoI don't know OpenOffice but In most programs putting spans around a letter or word does not affect pasting.
- jamesaguilar 14y ago10ms is a huge amount to spend for such an obscure fix. How many obscure corner cases do you think Google webpages have to account for? A lot more than 100, I would bet. So rough methods like these would be horrible for performance.
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoI invite you to look at the ridiculous amounts of JS lines twitter uses in its interface.
- kbrackbill 14y agoDoh, you're right. For some reason I had it in my head that the block itself wrapped onto multiple lines but I must have been thinking of something else. It seems like there isn't really any CSS only solution for this without wrapping every character in its own element like jQueryIsAwesome suggested.