Tag: word-wrap

Dealing With Long Words in CSS

Here’s a “bullet proof” way to deal with long words in your responsive designs. The solution shows hyphens (if supported by he browser) or it will break lines and wrap the word…
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Word-Wrap: A CSS3 Property That Works in Every Browser

Okay, this is not exactly the kind of CSS property that’s going to be used in every design. But it is a very useful one when you need it, and some might say it’s much more practical than some of the fluffy new CSS3 features like transitions and whatnot.The property I’m talking about is the […]
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CSS Word-Wrap: Force Text to Wrap

A rarely used but extremely useful CSS property, the word-wrap. You can force long unbroken text to wrap in a new line by specifying break-word with the word-wrap property. For example, you can use it to prevent text extending out the box and breaking the layout. This commonly happens when you have a long URL […]
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Taming Long Words with CSS word-wrap

Web browsers have a long history of sharing features between them. The word-wrap CSS property is a feature that originally came from Microsoft and is included in CSS3. Now available in Firefox 3.5, this CSS property allows the browser to arbitrarily break up long words or strings of characters to fit within a given element…
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