[selowitch]

Well, at some point they deprecated the <nobr> and <wbr> tags, leaving us with no apparent means of indicating in HTML that "a line can break here if necessary". Are there any other approaches/solutions?

[Simon Mundy]

Originally posted by selowitch:
Well, at some point they deprecated the <nobr> and <wbr> tags, leaving us with no apparent means of indicating in HTML that "a line can break here if necessary". Are there any other approaches/solutions?

I'd never seen these tags until now! I'm glad they're deprecated - it would create a huge mess in WYSIWYG editors and more of a mess for the poor old sods who need to maintain a lot of websites on the run.

It's now quite easily handled by CSS:-

< p style="white-space: nowrap" >Your non-breaking text< /p >

It will, however, respect < br/ > tags if you want to manually break your text (or so the spec says anyway!)

You can also dispense with < pre > tags, as the white-space property also accepts the 'pre' value.

[Millennium]

They were never deprecated, because they were never standard.

[f1000]

Originally posted by selowitch:
Well, at some point they deprecated the <nobr> and <wbr> tags, leaving us with no apparent means of indicating in HTML that "a line can break here if necessary". Are there any other approaches/solutions?

Is this similar to the soft-hyphenation issue that I posted about earlier?

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...ft+hyphenation

[selowitch]

Originally posted by f1000:
Is this similar to the soft-hyphenation issue that I posted about earlier?

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...ft+hyphenation

Similar, yes. Anybody who does a lot of typesetting/typography is likely to be familiar with discretionary line breaks and soft hyphenation:

• a discretionary line break is usually placed where another rule precludes hyphenation for the surrounding words, but says "it's okay for the browser [or other text-displaying program] to break the line here if it is needed."
• a soft (or discretionary) hyphen is similar except it refers to breaking up words into particles by inserting a hyphen when necessary.

[f1000]

Got it.

[selowitch]

Code:
Originally posted by Simon Mundy:
<p style="white-space: nowrap">Your non-breaking text</p>

And if I want to enable wrapping, is it as follows:

Code:
Originally posted by Simon Mundy:
<p style="white-space: wrap">Your breaking text</p>

?