[wp-testers] A little problem in the flash uploader

Otto otto at ottodestruct.com
Mon Nov 10 19:06:29 GMT 2008


Don't use nowrap tags, use CSS. white-space: nowrap;

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#white-space-prop


On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Paul Robinson <pablorobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not even sure if browsers take notice of the <nowrap> tag anymore. I can
> tell you that this problem happens in IE 7, FF 3.0.3 & Chrome though. It's
> not really a big problem it just spoils the asthetics of the page. Of course
> no-one should put spaces in files uploaded to the internet anyway, even if
> WP is kind enought to replace the spaces with hypens. :P
>
> Paul.
>
> 2008/11/9 Stephen Rider <wp-hackers at striderweb.com>
>
>> Perhaps we could maybe put the file name in <nowrap> tags?
>>
>> On Nov 9, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Steve wrote:
>>
>>  That may be a browser thing since I think browsers tend to treat hyphens
>>> as
>>> "breakable," meaning they'll wrap it to the next line if they feel they
>>> have
>>> to. I'm not sure anything could be done to change that except to change
>>> the
>>> naming convention to use underscores or just drop the spaces altogether.
>>> Then the browser would treat it like one word again, and it wouldn't get
>>> wrapped.
>>>
>>
>> snipsnipsnip
>>
>>  On Nov 9, 2008, at 6:55 AM, Paul Robinson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  If you have a space in
>>>>>> your filename when you upload an image it will drop the filename in the
>>>>>> upload progress bar down onto a new line. It's kinda hard to explain
>>>>>> but
>>>>>> kinda like this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----------------------------
>>>>>> file_name_with_space
>>>>>> in_it
>>>>>> -----------------------------
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When it should be
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -------------------------------
>>>>>> file_name_with_space in_it
>>>>>> -------------------------------
>>>>>>
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