Comment 5 for bug 131012

The problem occurs because the tags are presented as a table with two columns. In an HTML table, each column must be at least as wide as the longest word it contains. For <https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr> in Gecko browsers (e.g. Firefox), this means the first column must be at least as wide as "requires-mapping-upgrade". In Presto browsers (i.e. Opera), words can wrap on hyphens, so the problem doesn't occur right now; but it could if someone introduced a similarly long tag without any hyphens in it.

We could try to make the Tags box (and all other portlets) wider. We could use an even smaller font for tag names. We could try to persuade Gecko to break words on hyphens too. But none of those would solve the problem: it would still be possible to come up with a tag name that was so wide that it pushed the tag counts out of sight. Solutions that *would* solve the problem include breaking long tag names, as we did for other text in bug 929; and not using a table to show tag counts in the first place.