[l008com]

So the non-breaking space,   , looks like a space, but acts like a letter. Meaning text won't wrap at the non-breaking space. Is there a character that does kind of the opposite? An invisible breaking space? Something that would act like a space, but have no width? Something I could put between every character of a long string, like say a 256 character hash, and have it wrap nicely as needed?

[Oisín]

Yes, the zero-width space.

[besson3c]

You can control hyphenation via CSS:

CSS Text Level 3

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

You can control hyphenation via CSS:

CSS Text Level 3

That won’t remove the need to manually insert a hyphenable (hyphenatable?) character between each character. Even if setting hyphenation to ‘all’ in your CSS, it won’t break a word between two regular characters.

[besson3c]

Then I guess your only option is Javascript.

[mduell]

Why would you need js? Just use &#8203 between each character.

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by mduell 

Why would you need js? Just use &#8203 between each character.

Ahhh.. You're right! I've never used the zero width space before... Interesting.

[l008com]

So this works well, with one problem. If someone is copying text off a web page, the result is not going to be what they expect. And since this whole post was about a hash generator, there's a good chance the results WILL be copied. Maybe I can make a "button" that will replaced the plain text html results with results in a text area that can be easily copied... yeah that sounds like a plan.

[besson3c]

Maybe the hash could be displayed in a modal box so that it is out of the document flow?

[andi*pandi]

If they need to copy it without spaces, just hide the overflow and let them select the text box and select all, copy.