Breaking a long Word or Sentence

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How can I break a long word using CSS which is browser independent?
I am using "word-break:normal/break-all/hyphenate;" css for breaking a long Sentence Which does not work on Mozila firefox or Opera.
or How to write a javascript which break a long word?

Posted 20-Jun-12 5:05am

Pallabi2323

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markovl · Answer 1 · 2012-06-20T05:36:00

You could try the word-break in combination with word-wrap

Something like:

CSS

.MyClass
{
    word-wrap: break-word;
    word-break: hyphenate;
}

This worked in my test in IE, FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari:

HTML

<html>
<head>
    <title>wrapping test</title>
</head>
<body>
    <div style="width: 60px; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: hyphenate;">
        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Antidisestablishmentarianism.
    </div>
</body>
</html>

Arunprasath Natarajan · Answer 2 · 2012-06-26T06:39:00

Solution 2

You can include the word wrap property to break the line and display the content on next line. You have to just include this property as STYLE="word-wrap: break-word" .

Posted 26-Jun-12 6:39am

Arunprasath Natarajan