EQUIVALENT OF word-break compatible with mozilla

Question posted by: newatcoding (Newbie) on December 3rd, 2007 05:53 AM

Hai friends,

Iam trying to wrap a single word that exceeds a particular length in a text area to be displayed inside a table by using html.

t was suucessfuul, by using word-break:all in IE.

But in mozilla it didnt work.

I cannot find an equivalent for it...

Will u please help me in this..

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drhowarddrfine

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December 3rd, 2007
06:06 PM
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Re: EQUIVALENT OF word-break compatible with mozilla

word-break is a proprietary IE-only property, however, it has been introduced into the new css3 standard. But that standard is still in the draft stage and not finalized. I think the only browser that supports it is IE right now but Firefox is working on including it fairly soon.

newatcoding

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December 4th, 2007
08:10 AM
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Re: EQUIVALENT OF word-break compatible with mozilla

Thanks for the information..

Is there any other method than this to wrap a long word?

drhowarddrfine

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December 4th, 2007
02:34 PM
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Re: EQUIVALENT OF word-break compatible with mozilla

Without white space in the word, the browser does not know where to break so, no. I've seen this topic discussed elsewhere but I don't recall that a solution was ever found.

drhowarddrfine

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December 4th, 2007
02:35 PM
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Re: EQUIVALENT OF word-break compatible with mozilla

Without white space in the word, the browser does not know where to break so, no. I've seen this topic discussed elsewhere but I don't recall that a solution was ever found.

Are you sure you need to be using a table for what you are doing?

newatcoding

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December 5th, 2007
04:38 AM
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Re: EQUIVALENT OF word-break compatible with mozilla

Thanks sir.
That was the result that i got after workuing for the last two days.

If iam not using a table what else would I use to make a number of items visible in one coumn or two column or three column format?

drhowarddrfine

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December 5th, 2007
01:08 PM
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Re: EQUIVALENT OF word-break compatible with mozilla

3-column layouts
Never use tables for layout.

newatcoding

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March 28th, 2008
07:41 AM
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Re: EQUIVALENT OF word-break compatible with mozilla

thanks the problem is solved

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