Wrapping Long Text in CSS

Wrapping long text in CSS

I use the combination

word-wrap: break-word;
overflow: hidden;

to deal with this. The word-wrap setting will allow the word to be wrapped despite its length in browsers which support that property, while the overflow setting will cause it to be cut off at the end of the available space in browsers which don't recognize word-wrap. That's about as graceful of degradation as you're likely to get without going to javascript.

How can I wrap or break long text/word in a fixed width span?

You can use the CSS property word-wrap:break-word;, which will break words if they are too long for your span width.

span {     display:block;    width:150px;    word-wrap:break-word;}

<span>VeryLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongExample</span>

How to make a really long text wrap to keep it in a table td using CSS

You are setting white-space to nowrap, which prevents the text from wrapping across multiple lines:

nowrap

Collapses whitespace as for normal, but suppresses line breaks (text wrapping) within the source.

You need to add both word-break: break-word and white-space: normal (or just remove this property, as normal is its default value) to make the text fit in the cell:

body {  font-family: monospace;}
.a {  width: 300px;   word-wrap: break-word;  background: yellow;    /* Just to keep text selection hightlight inside the table: */  overflow: hidden;}
table {  border-collapse: collapse;  border: 3px solid black;  margin: 0 auto;}
th,td {  border: 3px solid black;  padding: 4px;}

<table>  <tbody>      <tr>      <td>        SOME STUFF      </td>      <td>        <div>A</div>        <div>A-text</div>      </td>      <td>        <div>B</div>        <div>C-text</div>      </td>        <td>        <div>C</div>        <div>C-text</div>      </td>            </tr>
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Css how to wrap text in li

You can use word-wrap: break-word; on li. check updated snippet below..

.dropdown-menu li, .dropdown-menu li a {    white-space: normal;    float: left;    width: 100%;    height: auto;    word-wrap: break-word;}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-BVYiiSIFeK1dGmJRAkycuHAHRg32OmUcww7on3RYdg4Va+PmSTsz/K68vbdEjh4u" crossorigin="anonymous">
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-Tc5IQib027qvyjSMfHjOMaLkfuWVxZxUPnCJA7l2mCWNIpG9mGCD8wGNIcPD7Txa" crossorigin="anonymous"></script><nav class="navbar navbar-default" role="navigation">
<div class="dropdown">    <button class="btn btn-default dropdown-toggle" type="button" id="dropdownMenu1" data-toggle="dropdown">        Dropdown        <span class="caret"></span>    </button>    <ul class="dropdown-menu" style="max-width: 200px" role="menu" aria-labelledby="dropdownMenu1">        <li role="presentation" class="dropdown-header">Dropdown header trying to write something</li>        <li role="presentation"><a role="menuitem" tabindex="-1" href="#">Action</a></li>        <li role="presentation"><a role="menuitem" tabindex="-1" href="#">Another action</a></li>        <li role="presentation" class="disabled"><a role="menuitem" tabindex="-1" href="#">Something else here</a></li>        <li role="presentation" class="divider"></li>        <li role="presentation" class="dropdown-header">Dropdown header</li>        <li role="presentation"><a role="menuitem" tabindex="-1" href="#">Separated link</a></li>    </ul></div>
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How can I force a long string without any blank to be wrapped?

for block elements:

<textarea style="width:100px; word-wrap:break-word;">  ACTGATCGAGCTGAAGCGCAGTGCGATGCTTCGATGATGCTGACGATGCTACGATGCGAGCATCTACGATCAGTC</textarea>

Wrapping long text in IE and Firefox

Have you tried setting the class on the A tag (instead of the TD), and then only setting word-wrap: break-word;?

This works for me in a test docuemnt in IE 7-9, as well as in Chrome and FF.

Word-wrap doesn't respect parent's width for long non-break text

Simply set max-width:100% to .parent so this one respect the width of .container then rely on flex and your element will shrink by default. Also don't forget min-width:0 on the element itself to enable the element to shrink.

.container {  width: 300px;  display: flex;  flex-direction: column;  align-items: flex-start;  padding: 1em;  background-color: blue;}
.parent{  display:flex;  flex-direction:row;  flex-wrap:nowrap;  padding:1em;  background-color:red;  box-sizing:border-box;  margin-bottom: 1em;  max-width:100%; /*Added this */}.name{  background-color:mistyrose;  width: 70px;  padding: 1em;}.msg{  background-color:powderblue;  max-width:30vw;  min-width:0; /*addedd this*/  padding:.5em;  word-wrap:break-word;}

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    </div>  </div>  <div class="parent">    <div class="name">      Hannah    </div>    <div class="msg">    somethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomething
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