Dangling signature dash in comments

Question

Sometimes, when the username at the end of a comment wraps to a new line, the dash before it gets left dangling on the previous line:

In fact, even when the username doesn't wrap, it still looks kind of ugly: the space between the dash and the username is twice as wide as the space between the comment text and the dash, even though the dash is, logically, part of the user signature rather than the comment text:

Admittedly, it's a minor problem, but the cause is pretty obvious if you look at the HTML source:

See all that whitespace between the   and the username? That's where the linebreak appears, and that's also why the space after the dash looks twice as wide as usual (since the browser renders the   as one space, and the whitespace after it as another).

And, indeed, removing the extra space, like this:

...makes the dash wrap correctly:

So, here's one for you HTML guys (and girls) at SE: please fix this extra whitespace, and make our comments look less ugly!

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Ps. While I'm at it, may I suggest that, when fixing this bug, another   should be added before the dash, making the HTML look like this:

<span class="comment-copy">...</span> &nbsp;–&nbsp;<a ... class="comment-user">...

Out of the variants I tested, this gives the nicest-looking output, both when the username wraps to a new line and when it doesn't.

Answer 1

This has been fixed and will appear in build 3762 for MSE/MSO, and build 2883 for other sites.