HACKER Q&A
📣 lostmsu

Is word-wrap by design in HN comments?


Reading comments today from mobile Firefox suddenly became harder/annoying: words appear to be wrapped, and in most cases single letter is carried or left on the previous line.

Has some recent HN change caused this?


  👤 rococode Accepted Answer ✓
I just checked and there's a CSS rule on everything now (comments and main thread text) that causes this: `word-break: break-all;`

Disabling the rule makes wrapping behave as expected.

I don't know if it's new, but I haven't noticed this behavior before.


👤 thaumasiotes
This is also happening to me in desktop Firefox. Only HN is affected. (textarea inputs -- on HN -- are also affected.)

I tried to submit an Ask HN too, but it seems to have gone to "new" instead of "ask".


👤 ranieuwe
Same on Safari on iOS. Rather annoying change that makes the comments hard to read. Same applies to the comment field itself by the way.

👤 Cyph0n
I am seeing it too on mobile FF. This is definitely new behavior.