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Long unbroken Markdown links create a <wbr> for every character, producing thousands of DOM elements for a single URL.

Use one inline span with overflow-wrap: anywhere per long word instead. Full link text, destinations and formatted children are preserved. Formatted content keeps its MarkdownLinkContext provider and can wrap instead of inheriting whitespace-nowrap. The change is limited to the shared web/desktop link renderer.

Both browser regression cases use the production MarkdownLinkContext child shape and fail on main. They grow a URL from 128 to 16,000 payload characters and check that its element count stays constant, its text, href and formatting remain intact, and it fits a narrow table. All 13 focused link and Markdown browser tests pass, as does vp run check:changed.

The screenshots use the actual component with the same synthetic URL: 16,024 descendant elements before, five after. They demonstrate rendering and element count, not click latency.

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Scope and approval

This is a small, focused fix for an obvious rendering bug under CONTRIBUTING’s exception to prior issue approval. It removes per-character element growth and fixes wrapping in the same link renderer without adding a feature or changing link actions.

Replaces #26827, withdrawn by the author.

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Verdict: Approved at 3f8d57f

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Long external-link labels now use CSS wrapping instead of per-character elements, reducing rendering overhead. The change is presentation-only and preserves link text and destinations.

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Long external-link tokens now use wrapping spans instead of per-character <wbr> elements. The fallback link span also uses overflow-wrap: anywhere. A browser test checks long plain and formatted links after rerendering.

Changes: External link wrapping

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Long link wrapping and browser validation apps/web/src/components/chat/MarkdownExternalLink.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/MarkdownExternalLink.browser.test.tsx	Tokens longer than 16 characters now use a span with overflow-wrap: anywhere. The fallback span uses the same wrapping rule. The browser test checks link attributes, text, descendant count, formatted text, and table width.

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Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

• pingdotgg/t3code#24146: The issue reports GitHub PR link chips breaking in narrow expanded-table columns. This change updates shared external-link wrapping, though it does not fully change the reported short-label path.

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#24584: Both PRs modify breakableExternalLinkText and its handling of break opportunities.
• pingdotgg/t3code#24163: Both changes affect link-text break opportunities in expanded table cells.

Suggested labels: bugfix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, macroscopeapp

Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 9bc74

Long formatted links can wrap, and the browser test checks the narrow-table layout. The change is ready to merge after normal checks.

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Use the production child shape for the formatted case.

ChatMarkdown.tsx passes children inside MarkdownLinkContext. For formatted links, plainHastText returns null, so MarkdownExternalLinkContent puts that entire provider inside its whitespace-nowrap span. A long formatted link therefore overflows the table even though this test passes. Use the production child shape and fix its wrapping. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Verified in a real dev environment

verified as-is at 9bc74123d71a919c384b0b6da8c3c21b43682b79. no source changes or pushes.

• installed and ran github/main (32ecd71726) in a separate worktree, then stopped its captured process group before starting the exact pr head. both used isolated development state.
• used the web app through repo playwright and /usr/bin/google-chrome. created a project for the real t3code git repository and submitted real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns through the composer on both revisions. no mocks, replay provider, fixtures, or demo data.
• preserved the actual main provider response in the pr development state for matching before/after data. the longer plain label has 2,140 characters: its descendants fell from 2,136 to five. the shorter 156-character label also has five descendants on the pr. all five link labels and hrefs are byte-for-byte unchanged, and bold details survives.
• the formatted link made the 728px main table scroll across 16,542px. on the pr, both visible and scroll widths are 728px. a fresh provider turn also rendered plain/formatted links live without reloading. at a 768px dark web viewport, its table stays within 456px with no horizontal overflow.
• nearby behavior: the short #26843 label stays intact; Copy Link returns the complete formatted-link destination (1,948 characters in the matching response, 276 in the fresh response); Open in system browser opens https://example.com/, with title Example Domain.
• inspected the screenshots and trimmed recording. the uploaded video plays to the end and supports seeking in the t3 browser player.

runtime/check transcript:

main dev: server 16733, web 8693; stopped before pr startup
pr dev: server 13773, web 5733
main codex gpt-6.1-sol: completed 10:04:03 utc
pr fresh codex gpt-6.1-sol: completed 10:09:43 utc
matching table scrollWidth: 16542 -> 728; clientWidth: 728 -> 728
plain link descendants: 152 / 2136 -> 5 / 5
text, href, bold formatting: preserved
copy destination equality: true
external destination: https://example.com/ (Example Domain)
blacksmith: focused link + ChatMarkdown browser suites: 13 passed
blacksmith: vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, affected typechecks, adjacent browser tests passed

before, the actual main provider response:

after, the same response on the pr:

Not verified

• native electron on linux, macos/windows shells, native ios/android, and remote relay/tunnel connections were not exercised. this diff changes the shared web/desktop renderer; mobile has a separate renderer. other providers were not exercised.
• no click-latency or cpu improvement is claimed. the real-app measurements above establish dom growth and wrapping only.
• github ci is not green: the existing run has one failed aggregate Check, 18 canceled jobs, four skipped, and six successful. its Check log reports canceled prerequisite jobs. the independent blacksmith checks above passed; no ci reruns or unrelated changes were made.
• on main, the first provider response persisted but became visible only after reload. the fresh pr turn rendered without reload. this verification does not establish the cause of that separate main behavior.

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merged github/main into the existing head without conflicts at ba9cebf and pushed without force. no source edits; the pr remains two files, +64/-12. both existing bot findings are addressed in the contributor commits and their threads are resolved.

blacksmith verification on this head: vp run check:changed passed format, lint, both knip passes, affected typechecks, browser regression tests, and react compiler coverage. the focused MarkdownExternalLink and ChatMarkdown browser suites passed all 13 tests. two independent read-only reviews approved this head with no findings. existing real-app before/after evidence remains above. github checks are pending.