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Brandon Brigham
Brandon Brigham
3,716 Points
Posted by Brandon Brigham
Brandon Brigham
3,716 Points

How do I not have my text overflow my box?

Hi,

If you go to this site I'm working on :

http://tcsconferencesnyu.com/index.php/speaker-lineup/jennifer-tabanico/

Underneath the name Jennifer...... There is a site URL and it overflows the dark grey container. How do I get either the text to wrap or make the grey container adjust to the text length...

Thanks!

2 Answers

Carman A
Carman A
7,672 Points

When I went in the dev tools and took out width: 100%; it worked. 3595 is the line I removed

Carman A
Carman A
7,672 Points

It might also help if you have the whole thing as an anchor tag e.g

<a href="#">Your Link</a>
Davy Wong
Davy Wong
25,470 Points
Davy Wong
Davy Wong
25,470 Points

Chrome DevTools to the rescue. You should watch this track to learn how to use it. http://teamtreehouse.com/library/website-optimization

Using DevTools, you can inspect the URL and see that it belongs to an unordered list element with a width of 377px. Change that to 100% and you're all set.

The CSS selector and rule is :

.speakers-folow ul { width: 377px; }

Just to clarify, this solution is to make the URL wrap itself to keep within the dimensions of the gray container. Carman's solution above is to increase the width of the gray container to accommodate the width of the URL.