How to wrap continous text?

06-25-2005

Hi.

I have a line of text that is hundreds of characters long, and that I
need to display on a page.

Because the line is continuous with no spaces, the browser won't wrap
the text. My goal is to have the text wrap according to the size of
the browser window.

Anyone know how to do this? Thanks!

Example code:

<html>
<body>
.................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ................................................
</body>
</html>

06-25-2005

Sorry, in my example code, the line of dot's should be continuous.

06-25-2005

wrote:

> I have a line of text that is hundreds of characters long, and that I
> need to display on a page.
>
> Because the line is continuous with no spaces, the browser won't wrap
> the text. My goal is to have the text wrap according to the size of
> the browser window.
>
> Anyone know how to do this?

Add spaces or soft hypens (, but support is reported to be generally
poor) to the text.

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06-25-2005

wrote:

> I have a line of text that is hundreds of characters long, and that I
> need to display on a page.

> Because the line is continuous with no spaces, the browser won't wrap

Okay, I'll bite: what kind of line is hundreds of unspaced characters
long?

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06-25-2005

If I simply add a space between each character it half's the amount of
information I can display on screen at once.

I want to maximize what is seen in the window, and that's why I want to
keep the lines continuous and have them wrap within the browser.

It sounds like there is basically no way to do this (?)

06-25-2005

Genome.

06-25-2005

Ah yes, soft hyphens work in Firefox, but not Safari it seems. Thanks
for the half fix!

06-25-2005

On 25 Jun 2005 13:58:45 GMT, Blinky the Shark <>
wrote:

>> Because the line is continuous with no spaces, the browser won't wrap
>
>Okay, I'll bite: what kind of line is hundreds of unspaced characters
>long?

I can think of plenty - just not any that someone would really need to
read.

You can shove spaces in all over the place (maybe every character), then
use CSS and word-spacing to make the spaces unnoticeable, but they'll
still permit wrapping.

06-25-2005

in alt.html, wrote:

> Because the line is continuous with no spaces, the browser won't wrap
> the text. My goal is to have the text wrap according to the size of
> the browser window.
>
> Anyone know how to do this? Thanks!

CSS: white-space

re-line;
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#white-space-prop

For IE, word-wrap:break-word might work.

Don't know much about support.

And then there is of course <wbr>. More:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/nobr.html#suggest

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06-25-2005

Andy Dingley wrote:
> On 25 Jun 2005 13:58:45 GMT, Blinky the Shark <>
> wrote:

>>> Because the line is continuous with no spaces, the browser won't wrap

>>Okay, I'll bite: what kind of line is hundreds of unspaced characters
>>long?

> I can think of plenty - just not any that someone would really need to
> read.

Okay, what are a couple?

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