<div> that breakes text

Hi, how can I use <div> that will break too long lines as table do, i.e. I
have realy long text
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaa

or i have a <div><pre>... situation, and I want too long lines to be hard-
broken to fit div width.


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Rafal 'Raf256' Maj

On 25 Feb 2004 05:12:35 GMT, "Rafal 'Raf256' Maj" <>
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> Hi, how can I use <div> that will break too long lines as table do, i.e. I
> have realy long text
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaa

Get your script to insert spaces after every n consecutive non-breaking
characters.

A table doesn't wrap long text any more than any other element does.

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Mark Parnell <> wrote:

>> Hi, how can I use <div> that will break too long lines as table
>> do, i.e. I have realy long text
>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaa
>
> Get your script to insert spaces after every n consecutive
> non-breaking characters.

I guess the question most often arises when someone has souped up a
guestbook script or found one, then sees what happens when someone
types a long string without spaces.

There are usually more serious problems than that, then, and what is
probably needed is to reconsider what's the big idea in a guestbook
script (there's actually no serious shortage of virtually empty
guestbooks on the Web) and then, maybe, finding a _good_ guestbook
script from a suitable distribution site. The details depend on the
authoring environment as usual.

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>> Get your script to insert spaces after every n consecutive
>> non-breaking characters.

> I guess the question most often arises when someone has souped up a
> guestbook script or found one, then sees what happens when someone
> types a long string without spaces.

Som there is no (X)HTML way to make an element that will force braking of
lines?

Wouldn't that be a good idea to add element like this into next CSS?



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"Rafal 'Raf256' Maj" <> wrote:

> Som there is no (X)HTML way to make an element that will force
> braking of lines?

Surely. <br> (or <br />) to begin with. As we move to _allowed_ line
breaks, things get rather complicated. So make sure you're solving the
right problem. Then, re-check that. Are you sure you are doubly sure?
Click here to continue. Oops, try this:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/nobr.html#suggest

> Wouldn't that be a good idea to add element like this into next
> CSS?

CSS has no elements.

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Rafal 'Raf256' Maj wrote:

> Som there is no (X)HTML way to make an element that will force braking of
> lines?

Breaking lines partway through a word is generally considered undesirable.

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Mark Parnell a écrit:

> On 25 Feb 2004 05:12:35 GMT, "Rafal 'Raf256' Maj" <>
> declared in alt.html:
>
>> Hi, how can I use <div> that will break too long lines as table do, i.e.
>> I have realy long text
>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaa
>
> Get your script to insert spaces after every n consecutive non-breaking
> characters.
>
> A table doesn't wrap long text any more than any other element does.
>

An example of such a PHP function:

<?php
/* insert a space (or any $separator ) every $lenght caracter */
/* only for words longer than $lenght */

function cutLongWord($string, $lenght, $separator) {
if ($separator == null) {
$separator= ' ';
}
return preg_replace('/([^ ]{'.$lenght.'})/si','\\1' .$separator , $string);
}
?>

It's a rough sketch of a function that could be refined but should face most
situations where you have posters with a broken spacebar.


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