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Text not wrapping in message pane (rel 128)

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Many messages I receive do not wrap in either the message pane, or when opening the full message viewer (into it's own tab). See the images attached.

I've tried the following approaches (very old thread though): https://superuser.com/questions/702484/can-thunderbird-wrap-long-lines-of-received-html-mails

i.e. creating a 'chrome' folder under my profile, and a userContent.css file under that, trying several of the suggestions for content of that file. None seem to make any difference.

The example message pics here are sent from gmail.

Thanks in advance!

Many messages I receive do not wrap in either the message pane, or when opening the full message viewer (into it's own tab). See the images attached. I've tried the following approaches (very old thread though): https://superuser.com/questions/702484/can-thunderbird-wrap-long-lines-of-received-html-mails i.e. creating a 'chrome' folder under my profile, and a userContent.css file under that, trying several of the suggestions for content of that file. None seem to make any difference. The example message pics here are sent from gmail. Thanks in advance!
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/* Avoid annoyingly long lines */ body {

   max-width: 100%;

} pre {

   max-width: 100%;
   white-space: pre-wrap;       /* CSS 3 */

}

But also, I found there was an issue with some of the HTML being sent - specifically from my work's internal helpdesk system and once we'd addressed that formatting now they all wrap correctly.

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Since I haven't received any messages that don't wrap, I can't test the css in the cited link, but did you double-click toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true in Settings/General/Config. editor, and restart TB?

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Thanks for that, it partially solves the issue, now: - The messages are wrapping when opened into their own tabs. - The message pane for the same messages are still not wrapping.

As I noted, that css mod was from a very old post - is there a more up to date way of managing wrapping of all types of messages.

I do receive some emails that do wrap (in both the message pane and the message vewing tabs), just not all messages do.

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I'm not aware of a css that works for all non-wrapped messages. Do the messages that don't wrap in the Message Pane look different if View/Message Body As is Plain Text?

Perhaps you could point out which css samples from the superuser page work best, as there are a few.

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This one helped:

/* Avoid annoyingly long lines */ body {

   max-width: 100%;

} pre {

   max-width: 100%;
   white-space: pre-wrap;       /* CSS 3 */

}

But also, I found there was an issue with some of the HTML being sent - specifically from my work's internal helpdesk system and once we'd addressed that formatting now they all wrap correctly.

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