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by erlanger 6290 days ago
Please stop doing that. Paul will never fix this bug, which gives any commenter the ability to force everyone to scroll horizontally.

Edit: I see that this style is in place, which should work:

  pre {
      overflow: hidden;
  }
but Mr. Graham's insistence on table-based layout thwarts this attempt to control user content (table cells stretch to accommodate their content).
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User "evil" created two hours ago, and all three comments so far do this. A troll, someone unable to get better kicks.
I couldn't find a Greasemonkey script which fixes this, so I just wrote one.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/45619

Is it just me or has this bug been addressed after the parent comment was posted? The page (as I see it) does not require horizontal scrolling any longer.
I think the comment was edited because looking at it now I don't see any long part that would potentially force scrolling.
No, a moderator must have removed the two-space indent.

    pre {
        white-space: pre-wrap;
    }
Install the Stylish Firefox extension and add this style.