[Koha-bugs] [Bug 12580] New: DataTables overflow their container elements

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=12580

            Bug ID: 12580
           Summary: DataTables overflow their container elements
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           Product: Koha
           Version: master
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: Templates
          Assignee: oleonard at myacpl.org
          Reporter: dcook at prosentient.com.au
        QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org

Currently, if you have a DataTable (or really any table probably but this is
when I'm noticing it) that is wider than maybe 80% of the page, it will
overflow its containing div element when you shrink your screen size.

Most of us developers probably have wide monitors, so we never notice this, but
if you shrink the window or use a narrower (ie older/cheaper) monitor, it'll
become obvious quite rapidly.

Search for all subscriptions and you'll notice the DataTable running off the
right side of the page
http://KOHA/cgi-bin/koha/serials/serials-search.pl?searched=1&title_filter=

Look at the detail page for a bibliographic record that has a really long URL
in an item record
http://KOHA/cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/detail.pl?biblionumber=1

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As Liz has mentioned, this is a problem that plagues many (re: most) web apps.
It happens on Bugzilla as well if you narrow your screen. Tables and text-areas
will overflow to the right.

Even if we make it so that the containing <div> expands to the width of the
overflowing table...there will come a point when there are siblings of the
parent that won't stretch to the edge of the page. That is, the header will
still be too short. 

I don't know if there really is a good solution to this...

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