Description of display settings takes too much space

It looks like this line of CSS prevents the text from wrapping. I don't understand why this line exists, here's a patch to remove, we should test to see if this breaks anything.

Patch applies nicely and solves the problem. Looks good to me.

Patch applies nicely and after a cache clear results are looking good.

Tested in Chrome 38, Firefox 33.1 and Safari 7.0.6.

Looks like this could remove a lot of CSS...

.locale-translate-edit-form tr .form-item {
  white-space: normal;
}

.field-ui-overview .add-new .form-type-machine-name .description {
  white-space: normal;
}

#permissions tr.odd .form-item,
#permissions tr.even .form-item {
  white-space: normal;
}

#field-display-overview .form-item-fields-field-image-settings-edit-form-settings-image-style {
  white-space: normal;
}

... and maybe more.

It'd be good to find out why that is there.

This was added to misc/drupal.css by the following commit

commit ad5e3ebb75df5c861251ba3ed3dd954a2b2241b4
Author: Steven Wittens <steven@10.no-reply.drupal.org>
Date:   Sun Jul 25 22:18:32 2004 +0000

    CSS improvements:
    - Restoring background coloring for the watchdog logs (was broken)
    - Making watchdog backgrounds lighter, makes it easier on the eyes and improves readability.
    - Adjusted the spacing between items on the frontpage a bit to be clearer.
    - Fixed the vertical stretching of table rows with form controls in them.

So no idea of the issue that prompted the commit :)

Wow, a 2004 commit? I'll try to remove the unneeded CSS too.

I removed it where possible. On some places, the white-space: nowrap was added on purpose (eg in #system-modules details), so I left these places untouched.

The /admin/reports/translations looks damaged anyhow, even without this patch, but I'll create a new issue for that.

Tried to apply the last patch and it worked until the last 3 lines, which it didn't find in the file. I added those lines manually and verified that the rest of the patch applied successfully. Unfortunately, I don't see any change on Chromium 39.0.2171.65 and Firefox 33.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Reroll patch, just remove the first change. Also tested it, and working goood.

I tested the patch and it fixes the issue (The description text is wrapping now).

Oh, very nice. We fix a bug *and* delete code at the same time!

Committed and pushed to 8.0.x. Thanks!