conditional break

[Armin]

is there an html tag to tell the browser where to break a word into the next
line in case it doesn't fit into the line? Something like a conditional
break?

Thanks

 

[Steve Pugh]

is there an html tag to tell the browser where to break a word into the next
line in case it doesn't fit into the line? Something like a conditional
break?

According to some people this is what the soft hyphen ­ is for.
But matters are muddied by conflicting specs and confused browser
support. Have a read of http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/shy.html and
dispair.

An alternative is the non-standard <wbr> element.
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagpages/w/wbr.htm

Steve

 

[nice.guy.nige]

While the city slept, Steve Pugh ([email protected]) feverishly typed...

is there an html tag to tell the browser where to break a word into
the next line in case it doesn't fit into the line? Something like a
conditional break?

According to some people this is what the soft hyphen &shy; is for. [...]

Is there a &bashful; as well? ;-)

Cheers,
Nige