Long Page Titles in Page Parent

[andymatic]

When using long titles for Pages and with many Pages in the system, the Page Parent drop-down (Manage/Write > Pages) goes off the edge of the browser window and the scroll-bar to scroll up and down to select the parent is also not visible to the user. Not sure if this can be fixed via CSS for the menu or having WP truncate the Title or having the Title broken up into multiple lines.

[rob1n]

I don't know what can be done about this, though truncating the titles seems like a good option.

andymatic: How long is "long titles"?

[rob1n]

Cut it off at 80 characters (modifiable by a filter) and add a ... to the end (in HTML entities).

[rob1n]

It's a bit hacky (to me, at least), and I have no idea if 80 characters is "long."

[ryan]

substr could mangle multi-byte character sets.

[rob1n]

I added in a check for mb_substr() and used it if it's there, but I don't know what we could do apart from that...

[mrmist]

It has to be a really, really, really long name before this actually becomes a breaking issue (depending on screen resolution). With just a long name it's a UI annoyance, as you can get around it with careful screen positioning in IE (Opera seems to manage the boxes more sensibly).

Could do with a patch refresh.

[janeforshort]

Punting due to impending release. Will reconsider in upcoming release cycle.

[johnbillion]

There's a patch for this at ​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/13292/

[mrmist]

Still an issue at 3.0.

[mrmist]

Version should reflect when it was found, I believe.

[solarissmoke]

#17043 has a patch ready for commit

[jtsternberg]

Why hasn't this been addressed? It only needs a simple css patch. see ​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18168

[nacin]

No need to resurrect old tickets.

Also, the version field is for the earliest reported version that this bug affects.