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is there an html tag to tell the browser where to break a word into the next
line in case it doesn't fit into the line? Something like a conditional
break?

Thanks

"Armin" <> wrote:

>is there an html tag to tell the browser where to break a word into the next
>line in case it doesn't fit into the line? Something like a conditional
>break?

According to some people this is what the soft hyphen ­ is for.
But matters are muddied by conflicting specs and confused browser
support. Have a read of http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/shy.html and
dispair.

An alternative is the non-standard <wbr> element.
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/ht...ages/w/wbr.htm

Steve

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> "Armin" <> wrote:
>
>> is there an html tag to tell the browser where to break a word into
>> the next line in case it doesn't fit into the line? Something like a
>> conditional break?
>
> According to some people this is what the soft hyphen ­ is for. [...]

Is there a &bashful; as well?

Cheers,
Nige

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