# Floating Gibberish Text

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [April 20, 2022, 11:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/floating-gibberish-text/224836 "2022-04-20T11:47:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 6:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/floating-gibberish-text/224836/3 "2022-04-20T18:04:22Z")

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Hi,  
This kind of writing is known as “cursed text” or “zalgo text” (as sort of a meme) and is used for fun or to annoy.

> **[Zalgo text](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalgo_text)**
>
> Zalgo text, also known as cursed text or glitch text, is digital text that has been modified with numerous Unicode combining characters—symbols used to add diacritics above or below letters—to appear frightening or glitchy.
> Named for a 2004 Internet creepypasta story that ascribes it to the influence of an eldritch deity, Zalgo text has become a significant component of many Internet memes, particularly in the "surreal meme" culture. The formatting of Zalgo text also allows it to be used to halt...

You can see it here and there, on Reddit, on Discord, etc…

The only way I know to decrease its impact is to add CSS rules such as:

```scss
.cooked {
    p, &>div {
        overflow: hidden;
    }
}

```

Result, from:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/4/1/c41842eff2b160bd821eedba870b6051d7689d56.png)

To:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/a/e/4/ae40ebed9d95cbebbbcb2749db011d89822fac40.png)

This will prevent the content (whatever it is) to bleed out from their container.

But it could have potential unwanted other effects.

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