Sidebar name in widgets admin screen not styled properly

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

If you give a sidebar a weird and very long name, the layout gets messed up because of the drop down's length.

register_sidebar(array(

'id' => 'broken_sidebar_name',
'name' => 'Very Long Sidebar Name That Will Make the Widgets Admin Screen Look Horribly Broken.'
));

[mdawaffe]

Tricky since both the select and the input have completely unknown width.

I'm not sure what the best (non-JS) solution is here; my CSS-fu isn't strong enough.

I think the "right" thing to do would be to tell those two elements (the select and the input) to fill up up to 100% of the available width and no more. If they need more room, the input should get as much as it needs, and the select should be truncated.

I don't have any idea how to do that.

I've experimented a bit with setting both element's max-width to be ~50%. This is a bad approximation to the above algorithm that works well enough in FF. I'll test it in other browsers before sending a patch.

If someone has a better solution, please grab this ticket and patch it.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

setting the select's width to 80% will likely work.

[mdawaffe]

Replying to Denis-de-Bernardy:

setting the select's width to 80% will likely work.

Unless "Show" is a longer word in some other language.

Here's a patch that sets the max-width of each to 50%. It works in FF2/3, Opera9, Safari3, IE6/7.

Again, I'm not sure this is the best solution.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

closing as fixed with #9511