stormdamage.org » HTML http://stormdamage.org Art, Webdesign and CSS. Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:31:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Wrap long hyphenated text onto the next line http://stormdamage.org/wrap-long-hyphenated-text-onto-the-next-line/ http://stormdamage.org/wrap-long-hyphenated-text-onto-the-next-line/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:33:57 +0000 Leonie http://stormdamage.org/?p=34 When you have a long line of text separated by hyphens, they will not normally be wrapped automatically onto the next line. This can be awkward, as it may break a perfectly good layout by breaking the content out of its containing box.

Some text like this for example, will not wrap if its container is quite narrow (say, in a table column).

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There is a solution – it’s the ’soft hyphen’:

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Which will create a hyphen which will happily wrap onto the next line.

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