How is this text able to run off the screen?

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Sorry, I know it's a little spam-ish, but here is the text in question.

Ỏ̷͖͈̞̩͎̻̫̫̜͉̠̫͕̭̭̫̫̹̗̹͈̼̠̖͍͚̥͈̮̼͕̠̤̯̻̥̬̗̼̳̤̳̬̪̹͚̞̼̠͕̼̠̦͚_Ỏ̷͖͈̞̩͎̻̫̫̜͉̠̫͕̭̭̫̫̹̗̹͈̼̠̖͍͚̥͈̮̼͕̠̤̯̻̥̬̗̼̳̤̳̬̪̹͚̞̼̠͕̼̠̦͚̫

How does this work? How is it able to run off the page like that?

I actually just saw something like this yesterday in a Google search results page... — Bitwise Creative, Jun 30 '15 at 04:56
Before it was closed yesterday, you had a response in the comments : It's unicode combining characters, Nothing about programming in here, and I'll let you read the wikipedia article about it. — Kaiido, Jun 30 '15 at 05:01

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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That's a trick that uses Combining Characters.

Here is an article that explains it.

But if you want to know how this trick is performed based on Combining Characters;This question on stackoverflow explains how it being done. (Read all answers not only the first one).

Best wishes!

edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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answered Jul 08 '15 at 09:42

AA-AI

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score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 30 '15 at 10:21

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As far as I can see this is just some form of visual glitch or something visual as if you highlight the letters. The run off of these letters shall disappear up to where the div for where this is in ends.

This is just from me trying a few things

answered Jun 30 '15 at 10:21

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The fact that the characters seem to vanish if you select text is a bug in your web browser. A correctly behaving web browser would display those characters as is even if selected. – Mikko Rantalainen Sep 02 '15 at 04:31

How is this text able to run off the screen?

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