I noticed my Facebook Live News Feed was completely out of whack today. Â A friend of mine posted a VERY LONG ‘hmmm’ as an update from Pandora, but his profile page looked fine with the same update.
I had to try it out:
What my newsfeed looked like (click for full image)
What caused it (because I replicated it)
Profile Page not affected
So let’s delve into this a little bit.
The Profile page uses the CSS property display: inline; to display the wall items. Â However, the newsfeed area uses display: block; to display updates. Normally this isn’t a problem, but inline ‘colors within the lines’ so to speak. Where block is more of a guideline that Facebook uses as an outline for what other items within the blocks have to adhere to.
It’s not so much that they didn’t test for really long strings, but either way, it’s  pretty minor bug, but I do wonder why they chose to use the two different properties on different pages.