An HTML tag used to indicate places where a useragent may elect to break a long word for rendering purposes.
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Soft hyphen in HTML ( vs. )
How do you solve the problem with soft hyphens on your web pages? In a text there can be long words which you might want to line break with a hyphen. But you do not want the hyphen to show if the whole word is on the same line.
According to comments…
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In HTML, is it possible to insert a word wrapping hint?
Imagine I have a long, multi-word line of text in a DIV:
Hello there, dear customer. Please have a look at our offer.
The DIV has a dynamic width. I want to word wrap the above text. Currently, the wrapping happens on a word boundary which…
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Unicode alternative for tag
I am looking for Unicode solution which will be an alternative to tag in following regards:
Allowing line breaks at given position.
Browser can find string in the page even when 'broken' apart.
When copied from page, these characters will not…
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lxml and tags
By default lxml doesn't understsand the wbr tag, used to add word-breaks in long words. It formats it as , similar to the br tag.
How do I add this behavior to lxml?
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Is the element semantic HTML? What about in a microdata context?
In short, this is bad web development and UX:
But solving it by using CSS3 word breaking (code & demo) can lead to an 'awkward whitespace' situation, and strange cut-offs — here's an example of both:
Maybe it's not such a big deal, and the UX…
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WBR Alternative in XHTML
I've been using tags in the thead cells for my tables, so I can control where browsers break long words. This works great, but its not XHTML compliant. What is the best alternative to using the wbr tag, that is valid XHTML? Example:
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