# Weird text formatting/wrapping on mobile \[1.9.0.beta10\]
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/weird-text-formatting-wrapping-on-mobile-1-9-0-beta10/70467
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [20 september 2017 om 17:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/weird-text-formatting-wrapping-on-mobile-1-9-0-beta10/70467 "2017-09-20T17:29:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@insertusernamehere](https://meta.discourse.org/u/insertusernamehere)
#### Post date: [20 september 2017 om 17:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/weird-text-formatting-wrapping-on-mobile-1-9-0-beta10/70467/1 "2017-09-20T17:29:02Z")
- The forum is [community.infinite-flight.com](http://community.infinite-flight.com)
- Discourse version is 1.9.0.beta10
- Phone is a Samsung Galaxy core prime - 4.5" display, running Android 5.1.1
- Using Google Chrome - stable edition
Since we’ve updated to the 1.9.0.beta10 , at the bottom of threads the text formatting next to buttons has been weird. Not sure this is intentional?
_Not thread or category specific_
Thanks in advance for any help,
John
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [20 september 2017 om 18:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/weird-text-formatting-wrapping-on-mobile-1-9-0-beta10/70467/2 "2017-09-20T18:13:04Z")
This is @j.jaffeux’s code, can you repro here on meta though?
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [20 september 2017 om 18:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/weird-text-formatting-wrapping-on-mobile-1-9-0-beta10/70467/3 "2017-09-20T18:16:23Z")
I certainly can repro, It was a choice, but it can indeed be weird on small screens. I will find a better solution.
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### Author:  [@insertusernamehere](https://meta.discourse.org/u/insertusernamehere)
#### Post date: [20 september 2017 om 18:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/weird-text-formatting-wrapping-on-mobile-1-9-0-beta10/70467/5 "2017-09-20T18:20:35Z")
Yep, it’s the exact same here 🙂
Sounds fantastic, thanks @j.jaffeux!
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [20 september 2017 om 18:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/weird-text-formatting-wrapping-on-mobile-1-9-0-beta10/70467/6 "2017-09-20T18:28:46Z")
@insertusernamehere, do you have any thoughts/suggestions on what you’d like to see here? It’s a lot of text to fit on a small screen.
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [20 september 2017 om 18:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/weird-text-formatting-wrapping-on-mobile-1-9-0-beta10/70467/7 "2017-09-20T18:31:44Z")
We just want it to follow the flow.
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### Author:  [@insertusernamehere](https://meta.discourse.org/u/insertusernamehere)
#### Post date: [20 september 2017 om 18:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/weird-text-formatting-wrapping-on-mobile-1-9-0-beta10/70467/8 "2017-09-20T18:48:35Z")
“As it was before” is the best I can say ☹. Sorry for the vagueness :(. @j.jaffeux put it perfectly
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [20 september 2017 om 19:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/weird-text-formatting-wrapping-on-mobile-1-9-0-beta10/70467/9 "2017-09-20T19:20:25Z")
I have tried to keep the best of both ideas:
This is on a small screen (makes the text as readable as possible and limits the waste of vertical space in case it would create more than 2 lines):
This is on a larger screen (put the text on two lines elegantly and without losing vertical space):
Is this what you would expect? @insertusernamehere
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### Author:  [@insertusernamehere](https://meta.discourse.org/u/insertusernamehere)
#### Post date: [20 september 2017 om 19:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/weird-text-formatting-wrapping-on-mobile-1-9-0-beta10/70467/10 "2017-09-20T19:34:19Z")
That’s great - looks really nice. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [20 september 2017 om 19:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/weird-text-formatting-wrapping-on-mobile-1-9-0-beta10/70467/11 "2017-09-20T19:34:56Z")
It is not the same as before; prior to this the text cleared on mobile and appeared _underneath_ the button, not next to it.
So I suggest a media query that at certain narrow widths puts the text underneath.
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [20 september 2017 om 19:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/weird-text-formatting-wrapping-on-mobile-1-9-0-beta10/70467/12 "2017-09-20T19:35:59Z")
This is actually the easiest thing to do, you would prefer this behaviour?
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### Author:  [@insertusernamehere](https://meta.discourse.org/u/insertusernamehere)
#### Post date: [20 september 2017 om 19:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/weird-text-formatting-wrapping-on-mobile-1-9-0-beta10/70467/13 "2017-09-20T19:37:00Z")
How it looked before always looked amazing, so yes, as long as it isn’t any trouble for you guys.
😄 thanks for the speedy help!
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [20 september 2017 om 19:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/weird-text-formatting-wrapping-on-mobile-1-9-0-beta10/70467/14 "2017-09-20T19:37:13Z")
At narrow widths I think this is the obvious choice.
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### Author:  [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)
#### Post date: [21 september 2017 om 05:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/weird-text-formatting-wrapping-on-mobile-1-9-0-beta10/70467/15 "2017-09-21T05:22:39Z")
How about tugged to the right unless the text occupies less than half of the width, meaning a long button. Then it moves down.
I suppose this can be easily done by setting the text to `min-width:50%`? If less than half space is needed then move below.
Beware, though, the not all languages are long. German probably will be long, but Chinese will look great even wth only 1/3 of the space and will look weird moved down the line.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [30 maart 2018 om 00:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/weird-text-formatting-wrapping-on-mobile-1-9-0-beta10/70467/16 "2018-03-30T00:15:58Z")