I have the following JS that produces an alert box:

alert("You have selected the maximum number of funds available for parison. Please ensure only five funds have been selected for your basket");

Chrome is rendering the alert box like this:

with the last 2 words wrapping onto separate lines.

Has anyone seen this before? Any ideas how to fix this?!

Wanted to add another screenshot since I am able to reproduce this error: --Jeremy

I have the following JS that produces an alert box:

alert("You have selected the maximum number of funds available for parison. Please ensure only five funds have been selected for your basket");

Chrome is rendering the alert box like this:

with the last 2 words wrapping onto separate lines.

Has anyone seen this before? Any ideas how to fix this?!

Wanted to add another screenshot since I am able to reproduce this error: --Jeremy

• javascript
• google-chrome

• Bizarre; it's not doing that to me with your "alert()", but I'm using Chrome on Linux so maybe that makes a difference. – Pointy Commented Jun 13, 2011 at 13:16
• Works ok for me, chrome 12, windows. – Alex K. Commented Jun 13, 2011 at 13:25
• This is extremely odd. I can confirm this with Chrome 11 on XP. Any words I put after "basket" seem to flow normally, yet the line break after "your" persists. – Jeremy Commented Jun 13, 2011 at 13:27
• @Jeremy, This image was actually supplied by the client, and I think she's using Chrome 8. I'm using 11 on Windows 7, and it works fine for me.. It's interesting that you're on XP with version 11 and you're seeing this also. I think the culprit is Chrome on XP with the word 'basket'? (for some odd reason).. at least I have something to go with now. (though where, I don't know!) – DaveDev Commented Jun 13, 2011 at 13:40
• @DaveDev - get your client to update their Chrome version -- v12 has been released, so it should update for them automatically. If it's a Chrome bug there's a good chance it'll magically e right after the update. – Spudley Commented Jun 13, 2011 at 13:54

5 Answers 5

This seems to be a bug with older verisons of Chrome.

http://code.google./p/chromium/issues/detail?id=83670

In Chrome 12 on linux it works fine, so I can't easily reproduce/debug. Have you tried putting in your own line breaks, say after every 70 characters like:

alert("You have selected the maximum number of funds \n"+
      "available for parison. Please ensure only five \n"+
      "funds have been selected for your basket.");

I understand hard-coding linebreaks is a bad idea in general (in some cases they will be poor choices) or if the text ever changes the line breaks will have to be adjusted by you.

As a programmer/developer you can't fully account for chrome not working properly. Except maybe avoiding alert box entirely, and sending the error message another way (e.g., ajax or a custom alert from say jquery).

@DaveDev, here is the image you requested. I think it looks good enough.

The code is from @dr jimbob's answer.

I remend to you that you, as a programmer, controll the length of each string. You can cut the line, by yourself, with a '\n' character, and control every line for yourself.

I suspect there is a line end in your document, because testing it in my Chrome (12, windows 7), the alert displays like it should. Are you using HTMLTidy or some HTML formatter?

[edit] Okay, seems to be a genuine Chrome issue. Here some related issues @code.google. for Chrome

• Lengthy alerts have weird line break in them
• Long text messages get truncated on the Javascript Alert box
• javascript alert popup truncates strings every 132 chars

The solution I have stumbled upon is to add +"\ " (backslash space) at the end of the string. Each of my text lines ends with a \n in any case, so effectively my string now ends with "\n\ "Then it seems I can use as many \n's that I want. Don't ask me why it works. Perhaps it will work for you? Just call me persistent!