You know what I'm talking about.. Stretched screen syndrome, when someone posts a word or phrase that's too long for the screen, or when you use the [ code ] tag..

Surely there has to be something we can do about this, and figure out a way to stop it from happening. I was just reading the "flash" thread in here, and ick, it was really getting on my nerves.. So... any ideas? Maybe a character limit on a word, after which a < BR > would be inserted? Although that would require picking a limit that would work for most screen resolutions, possibly not all..

Has anyone looked into this problem before?

There is only one solution - truncate long strings before they become long enough to distort.

Right now, this is done in sub truncate - 180 characters. Reduce that to 100 or so...

Warning - long URLs and URL tags will get truncated.

isn't there a way too set a max width limit on a table or something?

Nope, the text string will distort the table - that is required by W3C specs.