Title: Comment lines don’t break
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Comment lines don’t break

 *  Resolved [tolkien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tolkien/)
 * (@tolkien)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-lines-dont-break/)
 * This is driving me insane, whenever the comment is a little longer in IE it pushes
   the whole theme off-screen and in firefox it just goes all the way to the side
   of the theme. I just can’t figure out how to limit it. And no i don’t use any
   plugins at all.
 * Here’s what i mean [http://www.ijustlikemovies.com/?p=1#comments](http://www.ijustlikemovies.com/?p=1#comments)

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 *  [copperblade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/copperblade/)
 * (@copperblade)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-lines-dont-break/#post-675973)
 * It shouldn’t happen if there are spaces… you know like when a real person may
   be typing something.
 *  Thread Starter [tolkien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tolkien/)
 * (@tolkien)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-lines-dont-break/#post-675974)
 * just checked it, yes you’re absolutely right ! but isn’t there some sort of fail
   safe measure in case someone for some reason does this ?
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-lines-dont-break/#post-675975)
 * Do you have a lot of visitors typing 100 character words?
 * You can do a bit of CSS configuring to ‘hide’ any text overflow in the comments
   area:
 *     ```
       .commentlist p {
       	overflow: hidden;
       }
       ```
   
 * That at least will deal with the text screwing up the layout. Another option:
 *     ```
       .commentlist p {
       	overflow: auto;
       }
       ```
   
 * That will display a scroll bar on any comment that runs past the set (fixed) 
   width.
 *  Thread Starter [tolkien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tolkien/)
 * (@tolkien)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-lines-dont-break/#post-675976)
 * thanks a lot Kafkaesqui

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 * Last reply from: [tolkien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tolkien/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-lines-dont-break/#post-675976)
 * Status: resolved

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