I cannot get word-wrap to work with this example...
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<table style="table-layout:fixed;">
<tr>
<td style="word-wrap: break-word; width:100px;">ThisStringWillNotWrapThisStringWillNotWrapThisStringWillNotWrapThisStringWillNotWrapThisStringWillNotWrapThisStringWillNotWrapThisStringWillNotWrapThisStringWillNotWrapThisStringWillNotWrap</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body></html>
I remembered reading that a layout had to be specified (which I did), but beyond that I'm not sure what I have to do to get this to work. I really would like this to work in Firefox. Thanks.
EDIT: Failed in Chrome 19 and Firefox 12, it works in IE8. I tried doctype strict and transitional, neither worked.
Work-Break has nothing to do with inline-block
.
Make sure you specify width
and notice if there are any overriding attributes in parent nodes. Make sure there is not white-space: nowrap
.
see this codepen
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<style scoped>
.parent {
width: 100vw;
}
p {
border: 1px dashed black;
padding: 1em;
font-size: calc(0.6vw + 0.6em);
direction: ltr;
width: 30vw;
margin:auto;
text-align:justify;
word-break: break-word;
white-space: pre-line;
overflow-wrap: break-word;
-ms-word-break: break-word;
word-break: break-word;
-ms-hyphens: auto;
-moz-hyphens: auto;
-webkit-hyphens: auto;
hyphens: auto;
}
}
</style>
<div class="parent">
<p>
Note: Mind that, as for now, break-word is not part of the standard specification for webkit; therefore, you might be interested in employing the break-all instead. This alternative value provides a undoubtedly drastic solution; however, it conforms to
the standard.
</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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to get the smart break (break-word) work well on different browsers, what worked for me was the following set of rules:
#elm {
word-break:break-word; /* webkit/blink browsers */
word-wrap:break-word; /* ie */
}
-moz-document url-prefix() {/* catch ff */
#elm {
word-break: break-all; /* in ff- with no break-word we'll settle for break-all */
}
}
inline-block
is of no use in this scenarioSOLUTION
word-break: normal|break-all|keep-all|break-word|initial|inherit;
white-space: nowrap
nowhere used.NOTE FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING:
word-wrap
/overflow-wrap
is used to break words that overflow their container
word-break
property breaks all words at the end of a line, even those that would normally wrap onto another line and wouldn’t overflow their container.
word-wrap
is the historic and nonstandard property. It has been renamed to overflow-wrap
but remains an alias, browsers must support in future. Many browsers (especially the old ones) don’t support overflow-wrap
and require word-wrap
as a fallback (which is supported by all).
If you want to please the W3C you should consider associate both in your CSS. If you don’t, using word-wrap
alone is just fine.
This combination of properties helped for me:
display: inline-block;
overflow-wrap: break-word;
word-wrap: break-word;
word-break: normal;
line-break: strict;
hyphens: none;
-webkit-hyphens: none;
-moz-hyphens: none;
word-wrap
property work's with display:inline-block
:
display: inline-block;
word-wrap: break-word;
width: 100px;
This code is also working:
<html>_x000D_
<head></head>_x000D_
<body>_x000D_
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<table style="table-layout:fixed;">_x000D_
<tr>_x000D_
<td style="word-break: break-all; width:100px;">ThisStringWillNotWrapThisStringWillNotWrapThisStringWillNotWrapThisStringWillNotWrapThisStringWillNotWrapThisStringWillNotWrapThisStringWillNotWrapThisStringWillNotWrapThisStringWillNotWrap</td>_x000D_
</tr>_x000D_
</table>_x000D_
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</body></html>
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Use this code (taken from css-tricks) that will work on all browser
overflow-wrap: break-word;
word-wrap: break-word;
-ms-word-break: break-all;
/* This is the dangerous one in WebKit, as it breaks things wherever */
word-break: break-all;
/* Instead use this non-standard one: */
word-break: break-word;
/* Adds a hyphen where the word breaks, if supported (No Blink) */
-ms-hyphens: auto;
-moz-hyphens: auto;
-webkit-hyphens: auto;
hyphens: auto;
Source: Stackoverflow.com