width problem in the administration interface

[pasglop]

Hi,

With quick edit mode (any post), and with french language, the French translation causes line breaks in the author and password columns :

[audrasjb]

Hi @pasglop, welcome to Trac and thank you for opening this ticket!

Please note that the issue was kinda fixed by us General Translation Editor of the fr_FR locale by adding spaces between the slash.

However the issue mai still exist in some other locales. It would be nice to at least use hyphens: auto; on very narrow interface elements, in order to mitigate the issue.

Note: the CSS selector for this interface element is:

.inline-edit-row fieldset label span.title,
.inline-edit-row fieldset.inline-edit-date legend

Reproduction steps:

• Switch your WP to fr_FR
• Navigate to Admin Menu > Articles
• Open Quick Edit link for a post (called "Modification rapide" in French)
• See that the Author label is kinda bugged due to a too large string

[NekoJonez]

I think the issue is mainly in the length of the strings. Since I looked at my locale nl_BE and I don't see that issue there... but our words are shorter.

So, either we limit us translators to a certain length OR make it responsive-ish and "not really care" about the length of the translation.

Also, JB... Besides the author label ... look at the password label. Same issue me thinks.

[audrasjb]

Replying to NekoJonez:

Also, JB... Besides the author label ... look at the password label. Same issue me thinks.

Same issue but not same problem :D

• The password label is "Mot de passe" which is three words, so the cut is ok.
• The author label is "Auteur/autrice" which is one word, so the cut is not ok. It cut on the wrong place, leaving a single "e" on a new line.

But basically, the problem comes from the interface, not from the translation.
Using hyphens: auto; would provide a clean cut.

Line breaks in columns on quick edit mode (any post) if the translation of the label becomes too long in any language.

Adds hyphens: auto

### With issue

### After issue fixed

Trac ticket: [url https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/58909]